Remembrance does not rhyme well with democracy, by Manel Pérez

In the Kremlin there is joy at the perception, wrong or not, that you will get what you want from Ukraine. And you don’t want anyone to ruin this sweet moment of putinism. Not even the campaign for European rearmament. Although the idea of the French President, Emmanuel Macron, to create a European Army that can defend the countries of the European Union (EU) “from the United States, Russia and China” was already spoken in public in 2018, it has…

The rearmament, prepared according to the new Brussels euphemism, starts off badly. In the name of democracy and freedoms things happen that question those desires. It is better not to hide your head under the wing and admit that militarisation and democracy have never been good travelling companions. Europe suffers a harassment of its democratic regimes, but to mimic with the attackers should not be the alternative.