The trauma of September 11 has reshaped the world and the relationship to the terrorist threat, but has a course been taken towards a "strategic autonomy" for Europeans?
Three figures from Europe from yesterday and today talk about their September 11th and what these events have changed according to them.
Everyone remembers where they were when they learned that the World Trade Center Twin Towers had been the target of a terrorist attack.
The Spaniard Javier Solana, then High Representative of the European Union for Foreign and Security Policy, was in Crimea.
He "immediately returned to Brussels to call Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice".
As for the Romanian Mircea Geoana, current Deputy Secretary General of NATO, he was then Minister of Foreign Affairs.
He tells us "the shock and anger felt" after this attack.
The former Executive Secretary General of the European External Action Service, Pierre Vimont, was then France's permanent representative in Brussels.
He "witnessed the collapse of the towers without believing it", and very quickly "wondered what world we were falling into".
This world they describe to us today, in the light of the events currently unfolding in Afghanistan, is undoubtedly very different.
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mission prepared by Perrine Desplats, Isabelle Romero, Yi Song and Céline Schmitt.
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