Recently, the European Parliament rejected an amendment to the report on foreign policy for security and defense of the EU, which demanded that it should recognize and respect the existence of the protagonists of international relations that have other models of life and social organization
Recently, the European Parliament rejected an amendment to the report on foreign policy for security and defense of the EU, which demanded that it should recognize and respect the existence of the protagonists of international relations that have other models of life and social organization, along with defending and promoting their values, by accepting to discuss and cooperate with them. For an organization that glorifies tolerance, respect for diversity, culture of dialogue, common projects strategy, positive rationalism and spirit, such a decision is a reason perplexity. Very common for the state of mind that currently dominates the European Parliament, even though not estranged to bureaucratic dogmatism, which tends to define the essence of external action of the European Commission, it reflects the neo-conservative unhappy mentalities installing at the head of the EU.
Neo-conservativeness argues that the objectives and methods of any external actions depend on the nature of a political system that designs and develops it. Accordingly, if the Europeans want to be successful in foreign policy, they should offer themselves partners having a convenient domestic system based on European values. That involves transforming the export political model or the values of European external actions in its main target. In other words, subsuming the European foreign policy – as much as it exists – to the intervention ideas meant to change the political regimes of potential foreign partners. Such a doctrine that fits like a glove to the Cold War veterans, who, forgott