SophieCo
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Russia wouldn’t endanger spy swap system with West by attacking Skripal - ex-Soviet mole in CIA
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Israelis and Palestinians alone will find solution, not let others do it – 20th IDF head
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‘Putin is a long-distance runner in politics’ – German journalist Hubert Seipel
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‘Japan should leave US nuclear umbrella’ - Hiroshima Governor Hidehiko Yuzaki discusses the nuclear deterrence
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‘Football beyond politics - shame some politicians don’t get that’ - Russia 2018 World Cup Chief on attempts to undermine the tournament
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‘Cowards fighting cowards behind computer screens’ – ex-drone operator Brandon Bryant on US drone strikes.
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‘US taking other nations hostage over Iran sanctions' – Ex EU-Commissioner Guenter Verheugen
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Spanish ex-Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos talks on Catalonia's bid for independence & future of the EU
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Former Italian PM Matteo Renzi talks on populists rise in Europe, referendum defeat and migrant crisis
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‘George Soros would like to invite millions of migrants to Europe’ – Hungary’s Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto
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‘Breaking up with the US won’t hurt Pakistan’ – ex-Pakistan PM Shaukat Aziz
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‘The UK shouldn’t pretend it is a superpower’ – Lord Peter Truscott
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‘Dangerous for US experts to be too sympathetic to Russia’ – ex-US Defense Department analyst
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‘Secure and stable Africa is in very few people’s interests’ – Eeben Barlow, the mercenary leader
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‘American unilateralism challenges transatlantic relations’ – ex-French PM
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‘No gentlemen in football when the World Cup is at stake’ - Christian Karembeu
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‘Cybercrime is bigger than arms & drugs’ – cybercrime fighter
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Fmr. Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki on the impact of Arab Spring
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‘Basically, we didn’t lose anything’ - Billionaire Arkady Rotenberg, Putin’s closest friend, on Western sanctions.
‘American unilateralism challenges transatlantic relations’ – ex-French PM
After the US recently slapped steel and aluminium tariffs on its EU partners, former French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin joined SophieCo to share his take on the growing schism between the US and Europe.
“Mr. Trump’s unilateralism” challenges “the quality of our transatlantic relations,” Raffarin said, referring to Donald Trump’s decisions to pull the US out of the Iran nuclear deal and the Paris climate change agreement, as well as his move to relocate the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
It’s “very difficult” to build a future with an “unpredictable” Washington, he added.
Raffarin went on to say, “this means that for Europe, its relations with the East are getting more and more strategic,” while asserting that “the group of four, consisting of France, Germany, Russia and China” could serve as “a worldwide axis of stability.”
While “we are not yet at the point of the great shift, the intellectual and political infrastructure is now in place to prepare for a new vision of Europe’s future and, more specifically, that of a strong Europe, within a stable Eurasia,” Raffarin said, adding that Trump is “accelerating” this “destiny.”