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Eine differenzierte Darstellung der Probleme und laesst einen ueber die langerfristige Zukunft in der EU nachdenken...
Zitat:EU Ambassadors Annual Conference 2022: Opening speech by High Representative Josep Borrell
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Our prosperity has been based on cheap energy coming from Russia. Russian gas – cheap and supposedly affordable, secure, and stable. It has been proved not [to be] the case. And the access to the big China market, for exports and imports, for technological transfers, for investments, for having cheap goods. I think that the Chinese workers with their low salaries have done much better and much more to contain inflation than all the Central Banks together.
So, our prosperity was based on China and Russia – energy and market.
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The access to China is becoming more and more difficult. The adjustment will be tough, and this will create political problems.
On the other hand, we delegated our security to the United States
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You - the United States - take care of our security. You - China and Russia – provided the basis of our prosperity. This is a world that is no longer there.
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https://www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/eu-ambas...borrell_en
