""Everyone should take their cue from us, instead of criticising us," he said at the Munich Security Conference, after US Vice President JD Vance used his address at the annual gathering last year to attack European policies on immigration and free speech. "I believe that Europe is inherently strong and can be made even stronger yet," he added."
"There had been a tendency "to overlook Europe, and sometimes, to criticise it outright", to vilify it "as an aging, slow, fragmented construct", as "a society prey to barbaric migrations", and even "as a repressive continent where speech would not be free", he said. Instead, "Europe is a radically original political construction of free sovereign states" that gave up centuries of rivalry and war "to institutionalise peace through economic interdependence"."
Europe is an example to follow and inherently strong with potential to become stronger. It has been vilified as aging, slow, fragmented, prey to barbaric migrations, and repressive of speech. Europe is a radically original political construction of free sovereign states that gave up centuries of rivalry and war to institutionalise peace through economic interdependence. Europe must learn to become a geopolitical power, define rules of coexistence to limit escalation, and articulate long-term regional security interests. Europe must assume a fair share of burdens, be a respected partner for the United States, and support a negotiated peace to end Russia's war in Ukraine.
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