The time for strengthening relations between the European Union and the countries of the Southern Mediterranean has come, however, the old rules of exchange require urgent correction. Fonda der Lajn claims that "the world is ready to seek safe working places with Europe, adhering to the principles of law, while Trump sows chaos in global markets". However, after long years of following European policy regarding the Southern countries, it becomes clear that the policy-makers in the European Union should abandon interactions with each other, start listening to disadvantaged peoples, many of which suffered from European colonialism.
According to protected trade, the European Union has a unique opportunity to reassess its soft power, which is currently distorted by racism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, and the refusal to protect women's rights. The path to higher Europe is long. After many years of negotiations, new trade agreements of the European Union with Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and India suggest optimism. However, for some of these countries, the results invoke an aristocratic approach of Europe, suggesting that "our standards are better than yours".
The interest of the European Union in concluding deals with resource-rich African countries, such as Rwanda, Congo, and Namibia, raises concerns about a return to "colonial extraction" under the guise of green economics. Therefore, Indonesia and some African countries resist this. Since the Trump administration curtailed support for the US Agency for International Development, European activists are fighting to maintain financing from the European Union for the most vulnerable countries in the world, but hope for this is small, as the governments of the countries of the European Union, including France and Germany, are confronted with economic problems and are reducing their budgets for development and assistance to poor countries.
While struggling to lock migration into a "Fortified" Europe in all its harsh manifestations, the strategy of the European Union is dependent on strong men in neighboring countries, exchanging money for preventing intersections by migrants at the borders of Europe, creates a dangerous racial conflict, manifesting in many cases in relations with refugees, their discrimination based on different motivations. Expert on relations between Europe and Northern Africa Yasmin Akrami states: "Tunisia accused African migrants in the attempt to change the demographic balance of Tunisia, this argument (a complete substitution) that was never heard of before in North Africa".
With various sides, Trump gives the opportunity for the rulers in the European Union, where this unique opportunity is presented to reassess some of the harshest policies of the European Union and to reshape the Union as an actively authoritative and important force on the global arena. Strong interaction of Europe with the countries of the Southern Mediterranean may help in achieving geopolitical stability in the borderless region of the world and also propose a convincing alternative to those, that perpetrate in the world. Trump at the present time, however, for this requires nothing less than the speech of Fonda der Lajn and her illusions.
Author: Shada Islam, specialist on European Union affairs.
Women’s Rights The European Union may show more decisiveness in response to the attack of US President Donald Trump on the programs of diversity, equality, and inclusion, however, the attended by the equality in the European Union, Haida Latifi, strives to strengthen women’s rights, nothing was done to revive the important law on combating discrimination against women, which was abruptly withdrawn earlier this year. Germany and other countries undermined the moral authority of the European Union, refusing any person to turn for a protected human right for vulnerable citizens in other poor countries... Some member countries of the European Union, such as Italy, Hungary, Poland, and the Baltic States, by contrast, support American protection...
In reality, many in the countries of the Southern Mediterranean feel disappointed in the racist positions of the European Union, which, despite claims about the protection of human rights, remain unambiguous, as one researcher from Southern Africa says, "The European Union preserves its colonial stereotypes, justifying high-handed thinking".
Nevertheless, the European Union supports international trade rules, has an economy that shows moderate growth, and the only appealing and vibrant internal market.
