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In the Peace without Borders meeting, Spanish Foreign Minister Josep Borrell dared to draw the new iron curtain: "In these dawn of a new Cold War the border that used to divide Western Europe from the Soviet Union has moved towards the center of the Pacific, although sparks still jump in Ukraine. " He said it as praise to Europe, a necessary counterweight to the new confrontation between the United States and the China-Russia binomial on those basic trade routes for the world economy. The minister attended as a guest the event organized by the Community of San Egidio and the Archdiocese of Madrid, along with other leaders, thinkers and leaders such as Antonio Vitorino, director of the World Migration Organization, Patrizio Pagano, executive director of the World Bank or Jeffrey D. Sachs, special advisor to the secretary general of the United Nations.

"The problems are global and the instruments that allowed this interdependence between countries are wearing out because there is an explicit desire to wear them out," said the minister. "The intention is to move to unilateralism, the law of the strongest. Since the Paris agreements no international pact of weight has been re-signed, but a few have been undone, such as the nuclear commitment to Iran. Now there is more instability nuclear and the veto in the United Nations Security Council is used more than ever. Against that, the best antidote is the European Union, which is multicultural in its essence. "

In clear allusion to the secessionist and populist movements suffered by the old continent, but without explicitly naming them, the minister assured that "of the need for Europe," which was the title of his round table, "there is no doubt, because the European Union is like Newton's law of gravity , which anyone can verify that it works. Just just throw yourself out the window to know it exists. "

On the issue of European values ​​and the new European Vice Presidency created with that name, Borrell wanted to make it clear that "Europeans should be proud to belong to the continent and not just stay with the negative. It is true that the European Union is born over wars world, fascist and communist dictatorships and the holocaust. And on that we have created a collective memory, "but Europe" is also the place that in 1945 and 1989 defeated two types of totalitarianism to boost the rule of law and contribute to a world in peace and freedom. "

The French orientalist Olivier Roy, a companion in his university years of the Spanish minister, recalled that European challenges are not a problem between Europe and Muslim immigrants, for example, "but between Europeans with very different visions." "In today's Europe, secularization has overcome. Less and less people go to the Church. Religious groups must enter the debate on European values ​​again," he concluded.

In that context of European values ​​and Christian roots, Polish intellectual and politician Adam Michnik said his country today "is the cartoon of Europe." "Some voices of the Polish Church speak with words of hate, and many people go to the temple to listen to political rallies. Some bishops, contrary to what John Paul II, the Pope of Krakow, spoke for example of a new Bolshevik invasion thus referring to homosexuals and their 'rainbow terror'. In many Polish churches Pope Francis is considered a heretic for his most open speech. " And if we refer to politics, Michnik believes that Europe is allowing "an ideological distortion with which people like Vladimir Putin, Salvini, Orban or Le Pen can present themselves as defenders of European values ​​and identity. We are putting society in society ."

In another of the rooms of the Circle of Fine Arts there was talk of "People on the move in the new millennium", a migratory forum with obvious links to the previous one. In it, Antonio Vitorino, director of the International Organization of Migration asked the European Union "a system of rescue, disembarkation and distribution of immigrants in the European Union ", something that has not yet been achieved.

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