Europe can lose place at the table of the great
States have no eternal friends, as they do not have perennial enemies. States have permanent interests. He said it Lord Palmerston, the nineteenth-century English statesman. A time when experience and wisdom accumulated over 26 centuries of civilization remained alive. An experience and wisdom that the illusion of the end of history, and similar ones, were erasing. This time when the European nations were governed by statesmen and not by sympathetic people with one hand full of nothing and one full of good intentions, or nothing too; And this, at best because, at the worst, it is better not to talk.
This comes about the shock caused, in the European countries and in the vaguely Brussels techno-bureaucracy, by the historical turning point in US politics compared to Europe, a becoming determined by the current Trump administration. Because western Europe was not, after all, an eternal friend, as the Russian Federation was not a perennial enemy of the United States either. The permanent interests of America, or at least the reading that makes the current administration determined it. And the current president was elected by the Americans to defend his interests and not by the Europeans to defend his own. We can regret it, we are in our right, but it is wiser to accept it and more productive shrugging and moving on, mainly, it is fundamental to internalize it and resume old tradition, suitable for strict reality, to understand foreign policy as the defense of the permanent interests of our European states. Of each one on their own, and then the permanent interests of the European continent as a whole. Governments are not NGOs as their own name indicates it. Governments are not, or should not be, guided by more or less generous and altruistic ideas, but by the well -being and perpetuity of the peoples who are in their own time. Foreign policy is the kingdom of what it is, not the kingdom of what it must be. Oriented by judgments of reality and not by value judgments, as bright as they may seem.
Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen deputies
We see, on arrival, with serious concern that the governments of Portugal, the governments of other European countries and the bureaucracy of Brussels are deeply disoriented and lost without finding a lucid and clearly thought and determined place, in the brand new panorama defined by the current geopolitical, geostrategic and geoeconomic axes that define and structuring the new world. They prove it, by way of example, the erratic movements and contradictory discourses of European political leaders. Mainly prove it the permanent agitation of Mr. Macron, designed to mask, with the search for protagonism in foreign policy, his clamorous disaster in internal politics.
Finally: unable to find its place in the world and a safe path within it, Europe and European countries risk losing its place to the Great Table. The sentence is known that 'those who have no place reserved at the Big Table is part of the menu'. Europe, on this way, after 26 centuries to the head of the table, surely it will find another place of honor only, this time, in the menu.
