Why Europe Looks Divided? – Costa Explains the REAL Reason 🇪🇺⚡

[0:00]it's interesting because everybody ask always why you are divided. But the main question is, how you achieve to be united? Because look, we are 27 member states, with a very different histories, different cultures and looking at the world from a very different point of view. If you try to look the world from Estonia, you you perhaps what you see basically is Russia. If you look to the world from Spain, it depends. If it's from Galicia, what you see is the very large ocean. If you look from uh, Sevilla, what you see, Morocco and the, and the Maghreb. And uh, if you see the, uh, if you look at the world from Cyprus, Cyprus is 120 km from Syria. Uh, if you look from Poland, what you see is Ukraine, and after Ukraine is immediately Russia. If you look from, uh, from Finland, Finland has the largest, uh, border in the world with Russia. Then, we are looking to the world, we have 360° of, uh, vision around us to, to the world. And then, of course, all of these different point of views shape different national foreign political, uh, foreign, uh, foreign policies. And, and of course, for a Spanish or for a Portuguese, the partnership with Africa or Latin America is very natural, for a Baltic perhaps not. Uh, relationship with the, with the Middle East is very clear, a priority for Greece or or or Cyprus. And, uh, of course, it did change. Uh, and what is, what is interesting is, we achieve normally, in 99.9% of the times, it's very easy to achieve a common position. The problem is the 0.1% when we don't achieve for of this. And, uh, sometimes it put problems of our, in our credibility. And sometimes the world look at us with, uh, as an institution with double standard. We took a lot of time to achieve a common position on Gaza. Basically, because three member states, by historical reasons, as a huge difficulty to condemn Israel when the Israel doesn't respect the international law. It's true, perhaps we are not so clear when United States doesn't respect the international law. Because we are trying to keep our alliance, we are trying to avoid a train, trade, trade war, and specially we are trying to doesn't disturb the engagement of United States in Ukraine. And, uh, unfortunately, foreign policy normally is a compromise, not only in Europe, everywhere. Everywhere. And, uh, but I, but we are very concerned on this, and we are trying to more and more engage, to have a very, to be more clear, to avoid to have a double, to have to be perceived as a double, as using a double standard, and to be very firm. I cannot, it's, of course, President Trump helps a lot, because it's become easier and easier to be more clear about what is doing. Uh, but, uh, of course, a common foreign policy could not be based in the export of the national foreign policy to the other 26. Need to be based in common principles, common understandings, and understandings that when that we have a 360° foreign policy and must be coherent in all the cardinal points. Then they are a lot, we have a lot to work on this. Thank you.