During the Global Progressive Forum, EU Minister of Foreign Affairs Josep Burrell declared that the US and EU rule the world. However, he warned that this status quo may change in the 21st Century.
The Global Progressive Forum (see their website here) is an annual meeting held at the European Parliament in Brussels (and online) to discuss current progressive issues including democracy, human rights, and sustainable development. The 2021 forum had a special emphasis on “populism and extremism” that has taken the stage in many countries. Participants and audiences are also reminded that Turkey and Russia are “destabilizing players” within their regions (which region does Russia fall under?). As bad as things are, women suffer worse than men. But challenges can be turned into the great reset new opportunities for all.
On the first day of the three-day summit on November 17, Josep Burrell had this to say:
…We Western people, US and EU, we have been ruling the world because we were the standard-setters, we were fixing the standards. We were the masters of how technology was working. And from steel mills to trains to railways, to everything, warfare we were the standard-setting. If we are no longer the standard-setting, we will not rule the 21st Century.
-Josep Borrell
Borrell said the quiet part out loud.
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