Media: NATO’s problems fade into background amid instability of alliance’s leaders
The leaders of the leading NATO member states found themselves ‘in a deplorable state’ due to political instability in their countries, and the problems of the alliance itself worry them much less, according to The Financial Times, TASS reports
The publication reads that the three most influential NATO leaders – French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and US President Joe Biden – turned out to be the ‘most vulnerable’ from the political point of view. According to the developed plan, behind the rhetoric about the inviolability of the bloc, whose participants will celebrate its 75th anniversary, there are huge problems of ‘the largest predators’.
According to the article, now it is not up to Macron to debate at the summit, since he ‘is concerned about the results of the elections’ that took place in France, which weakened his position and exacerbated the country’s already serious problems. Scholz heads an extremely unpopular government that ‘will almost certainly be replaced next year’. The right-wing Alternative for Germany (AFD) party received more votes than the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) in the European Parliament elections held in June. Every second resident of Germany supports holding early elections to the Bundestag due to the disastrous results shown by the parties of the ruling coalition.
The newspaper points out that Biden is in the ‘worst condition’ of all after his failure in the election debate with his main opponent, Republican Donald Trump.
According to The Financial Times, more than a dozen leaders of the largest European NATO countries have negative ratings.
The ‘feeling of instability was aggravated’ by the visit of Hungary’s PM Viktor Orban to Moscow, where he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin. They discussed possible ways to resolve the conflict in Ukraine and the launch of peace talks. The EU and NATO perceived the visit of the Hungarian Head of Government as undermining the alliance’s common efforts to provide military support to Ukraine.
The NATO summit is being held in Washington on July 9th-11th to mark the 75th anniversary of the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty in 1949.
