The German Chancellor Olaf Scholzreminded this Wednesday the president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, that the inviolability of borders and international law are binding on everyone, including Washingtona warning that France had also issued hours before. “This principle cannot and should not be touched,” he stressed, in an unusually direct message to the magnate, after not ruling out on Tuesday his intention to take over the ccontrol of Greenland, in addition to the Panama Canalusing the military force or economic coercion.
The principle of the inviolability of borders is in force for all countries, it does not matter if they are to the east or west. “Everyone must comply with it, whether they are a small country or a very large power,” Scholz said in explicit terms in an extraordinary appearance before the media in Berlin. after talking with other European leaders about Trump’s last words, which also includes joining Canada to the US.
The German chancellor, flanked by the flags of the European Union (EU) and the German one in the Chancellery, recalled that in the midst of the Cold War, in the 1970s, the Western States and the Soviet bloc agreed that Borders cannot be moved through violence.
With Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Moscow violated this principlecontinued Scholz, who highlighted that he himself described this moment as a “change of era”, since it resulted in the return of war to the heart of Europe.
Scholz emphasized that Germany, together with its allies and, among them, the United States at the head, is supporting kyiv in its defense against the Russian attack “to protect the sovereignty and integrity of Ukraine and the principle of the inviolability of borders”, which “is in force and is the basis of the peace order”.
“This principle cannot and should not be touched,” he stressed, in an unusually direct message to Trump.
France warns Trump
In the same sense, France He also warned the US president-elect this Wednesday that “the EU will not allow other nations in the world, whoever they are, attack their sovereign borders”.
The French Foreign Minister, Jean-Noël Barrot, was convinced that The United States will not invade Greenlandalthough he considers that the European Union must wake up and be aware that we are entering an era of “the law of the strongest”.
In an interview this Wednesday with the France Inter radio station, Barrot said that “we are a great country on a great continent that constitutes the first market in the world and that must affirm its principles and values,” before emphasizing that Greenland is part of Denmark and is therefore a territory of the European Union.
He insisted thatThe “deep nature” of the United States is “contrary” to the idea of imperialismwhen asked about Trump’s words, who in a press conference did not rule out a possible use of force for his ambitions for the Panama Canal and Greenland.
However, the head of French diplomacy pointed out that We must not let ourselves be intimidated, but rather “we must wake up, strengthen” also in the military field.
“It is ruled out – he added – that the EU allows other nations in the world, whoever they may be and starting with Russia, to attack its sovereign borders. We are a strong continent, we have to strengthen ourselves more, we have to wake up.”
The French Government and, above all, the president, Emmanuel Macronhave been multiplying messages in recent weeks to the other partners of the European Union to directly assume his defensereducing its dependence on the United States in NATO.
In a press conference the day before at his residence in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, Trump was asked if he ruled out the use of “military or economic coercion” to achieve his goal of recovering the control of the Panama Canal and take over the island of Greenland.
“No, I can’t assure you that I will rule out either of those two options, but I can say this: we need them for our economic security,” Trump responded.
His statements came after the president-elect’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., arrived in Greenland that same day, amid growing speculation about the possibility that the future US administration will try to acquire the island, an autonomous territory under administration Danish and where the United States has a strategic military base for influence at the North Pole.
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