BILD/ EU Chief Diplomat Borrell a "total failure"

2023-10-20 19:20:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

The prestigious BLID media has dedicated an article to the EU's chief diplomat Josep Borrell.

The article states that the EU's chief diplomat Borrell is a "total failure" while quoting EU officials who have said so.

Find the full article below:

When it comes to the EU's top diplomat, members of the European Parliament are notoriously undiplomatic.

EU foreign affairs representative Josep Borell (76) has been a "total failure" since the Hamas terror attack in Israel, says EU parliamentarian Dennis Radtke (44, CDU). He "either didn't understand his job" or was "simply unsuited to it."

He is not alone in this opinion. In opposite. The Middle East is burning, Borrell flies to China

The leader of the conservatives in the EU Parliament, CSU Deputy Manfred Weber (51), even said it to Borrell's face on Wednesday during his speech at the Strasbourg plenary session: "I was told that you have never traveled to Israel in four the last. years to hold talks there and try to start a peace process."

Weber: "At a time when our neighborhood is on fire and we know the geopolitical importance of the region, (US Secretary of State) Blinken is traveling to Egypt and Israel, and our High Representative is traveling to China at such a time .

From there, Borrell also complained against his boss, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (65), because she flew to Israel with EU Council President Roberta Metsola (44) to show solidarity with the traumatized place. The EU's foreign policy is not her business, but his, Borrell complained about von der Leyen, who has just flown to Washington to talk to US President Joe Biden (80) about the situation in Israel. Applause with long story

The Spaniard, who spends a significant part of his working time in the Spanish-speaking world (eg Argentina, Cuba), even took the floor himself in Strasbourg. He boasted of his phone calls with Iran and his contacts with the Gulf states, spoke of the need for a two-state solution, the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip and the Brazilian resolution at the UN Security Council. At the end, his S&D (Socialists and Democrats) group applauded, but almost no one else did./ CNA