The president of the European Commission, Ursula Von der Leyen, has changed this Wednesday her speech on how to face the conflict in the Middle East: "Seeing how the world is does not reduce our determination to fight for the world we want. The European Union was founded as a peace project. Our unwavering commitment to the pursuit of peace, to the principles of the United Nations Charter and to international law are as fundamental today as they were at the time of our creation. And we will always defend these principles," she stated in the Strasbourg plenary session.
These statements come after he maintained a few days ago that "the EU can no longer trust a rules-based world" and that "a more realistic foreign policy" is needed, statements that were criticized by multiple people. Among them, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, who maintained that the Government "identifies" with the position of the President of the European Council, Antonio Costa, who had already marked differences with the head of the community Executive.
Costa has asked for “to guarantee that the world remains based on rules” and advocated for “multilateral solutions”, in contrast with the statements by Von der Leyen, who affirmed that “one can no longer trust” in the international system as “the only way” to safeguard one's own interests in the face of threats, in reference to the attack by the United States and Israel against Iran.
Along the same lines, the Vice-President of the European Commission, Teresa Ribera, positioned herself, who expressed her disagreements with the president on the European Union's stance after the military escalation in the Middle East and warned that it is "very dangerous" to enter into a debate that "seems to question international law".
