“Democracy is a fragile treasure”

Lhe democracy is “a fragile treasure”. Here is the warning issued by Jean-Noël Barrot, Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, in an interview given this Saturday to Parisian. While the re-election of Donald Trump is shaking up the international scene, the minister believes that “Europeans face a triple existential risk” and calls on the European Union to “strengthen itself in the military, industrial and commercial fields”.

For the head of French diplomacy, Donald Trump’s victory in the United States cannot be reduced to a simple accusation of populism. This triumph is the result of a long “blindness of the elites to the profound transformations of the world,” he said. Jean-Noël Barrot deplores the fact that American elites have not been able to recognize or deal with the growing exasperation of the middle and working classes, who feel “discredited” by economic and social policies that they consider inadequate.

Risks of digital abuse

While Elon Musk could play a role in the future Trump government, even if the details have not yet been specified, Jean-Noël Barrot warned of the dangers posed by new technologies, and in particular social networks , for democracy. He expressed his fear of seeing Donald Trump apply to American democracy the controversial methods he saw on Twitter, after the purchase of the platform by Elon Musk.

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