Brussels my love? NATO enlargement & EU crackdown on greenwashing

Euronews’ Brussels bureau brings you its newest episode of a weekly discuss present that goals to interrupt down European information and politics to make it extra accessible to viewers.

This week, we’re joined by Bruno Lété, a safety and defence specialist with The German Marshall Fund; Tomi Huhtanen, the manager director of The Wilfried Martens Centre; and Teri Schultz, a reporter specialised in NATO and Finnish affairs. 

Panellists picked aside the large headlines of the week from Finland becoming a member of the NATO alliance to the EU Fee president and the French president’s journey to China. Ursula von der Leyen and Emmanuel Macron had been in Beijing attempting to dissuade Xi Jinping from getting any nearer to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

However for Bruno Lété, China is not going to take heed to anyone however themselves.

“I feel China’s solely curiosity right here is China and to be very sincere, I feel that China advantages tremendously from the battle in Ukraine.

“You’ve got the West exhausting itself in there. You’ve got Russia exhausting itself in there. The 2 events are exhausting one another and within the meantime, China simply goes alongside and grows and will get extra affect on the world stage,” stated Lété.

Talking in Brussels this week, Jens Stoltenberg, NATO secretary-general, stated that China shouldn’t unfold the Kremlin’s wartime narrative.

Stoltenberg warned Beijing in opposition to delivering ammunition to Moscow, a situation that NATO and EU nations consider may very well be a game-changer within the Ukraine battle.

Concerning the EU Fee president and French president’s journey to Beijing, Teri Schultz informed the panel that it appears like “an uncomfortable scenario” to see the EU and France selling EU enterprise pursuits in China whereas on the identical time, Stoltenberg and Blinken are wagging their fingers warning China.

“We heard very sturdy language at NATO this week as a result of it is important that they haven’t seen that China has transferred deadly help to Russia to assist in the battle however we have been listening to for months that they are contemplating it.

“So clearly, as Bruno says, (China is ) maintaining their choices open, however they’ve clearly seen that it’s not finally of their curiosity to assist Russia struggle Ukraine and the US is making clear, as are different NATO allies, we are going to harm you if you happen to do that Beijing”.

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