Only one morning of "meeting" between the Heads of State and Government who will each have three minutes to express their position before exchanging: in Watford, in the suburbs of London, Wednesday, December 4, the leaders of the Atlantic Alliance will not meet in "summit". One way to limit the risk of new tensions and, perhaps, a new aggressive projection of Donald Trump, similar to that, memorable, the Brussels summit in the summer of 2018. We will try to commemorate speed, and in peace, the 70 years of the alliance "The most successful in history"according to the tirelessly repeated words of the Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg.
Optimistic and opinionated, he wants to seize the opportunity to assert the unity of an organization rudied by his main guarantor: the US president has certainly stopped saying "Deprecated" but he remains convinced that some of his allies are not doing enough for the "Burden sharing" collective security. After Brexit, 80% of NATO forces will come from non-EU countries.
So that's fine "Burden sharing" which promised to be, again, the dominant subject of the London discussions, until, on November 7, another president, Emmanuel Macron, inflicted an electroshock on NATO: his description, in the weekly British The Economist, of a Europe "On the edge of the precipice", and "Junior partner of the Americans", even though these have "For the first time a president who does not share the idea of the European project", could only shake. Less, however, that the notice of brain death " of a NATO unable to coordinate on strategic decisions made by the United States and Turkey in Syria.
Minimize the internal crisis
"Turkey must provide substantive clarification that all allies are waiting", underlines the French presidency, which summoned the Turkish ambassador after statements, considered insulting, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on the "Brain dead state" from Mr. Macron. "It can not, for example, take hostage the defense plans of Poland and the Baltic countries, because the allies do not declare the YPG (People's Protection Units, Kurdish militia) as a terrorist group, or deny that NATO intervenes in the Black Sea. " A meeting at four, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Turkey, is scheduled for Tuesday, December 3rd.
