Europe remains stubbornly focused on its own affairs, with no prospect of a unified superstate possessing a shared foreign policy or defense. This particular vision will not materialize. As Croatian President Zoran Milanović stated following the Money Motion 2026 conference in Zagreb, the continent functions more like a pack of house cats, each independently pursuing its own course, lacking the coordination of wolves.
Milanović’s comments extended to the reaction of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz regarding criticism directed at US President Donald Trump’s remarks concerning Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez. He argued that Trump had unjustly challenged Sanchez’s defense of international law. Merz, according to Milanović, passively accepted the US President’s position, demonstrating a lack of concern.
“He doesn’t care,” Milanović asserted. “But this is Europe; it’s not the idealistic projections originating from Brussels, a small group of bureaucrats.” The president’s words underscore a deep skepticism regarding the ambitions and capabilities of European institutions, portraying them as distinct from the grand narratives often envisioned within the European Union.
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