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The government does not openly proclaim any \u201cmoving away\u201d from the European strategy. Yet it undermines it\u2014silently and methodically\u2014through choices that, cumulatively, form a clear direction: the country\u2019s strategic alignment with today\u2019s American choices, even when these stand in direct contradiction to the European Union\u2019s collective policies.<\/p>\n
Greece\u2019s stance at the International Maritime Organization on decarbonisation was not a neutral \u201ctechnical divergence.\u201d It was a political positioning that distanced the country from the European core of the green transition\u2014to such an extent that it was publicly acknowledged by Donald Trump himself. When \u201cpraise\u201d comes from the main opponent of Europe\u2019s environmental and regulatory strategy, it can hardly be interpreted as a diplomatic achievement.<\/p>\n
The same pattern is reflected in energy policy. European companies representing European interests were, in effect, pushed out of the process of hydrocarbon exploration in Greek offshore blocks, leaving the field exclusively to companies of American interests. This choice is not neutral: it favours the channeling of more expensive U.S. shale gas into Europe and undermines both the possibility of extracting natural gas in these areas\u2014and more broadly the search for cheaper regional solutions\u2014as well as Europe\u2019s collective energy autonomy.<\/p>\n
At the same time, the growing American involvement in critical infrastructures\u2014ports, logistics, transport hubs\u2014creates conditions of structural dependence<\/strong>, not strategic parity. This is not a multidimensional foreign policy, but a unilateral strategic shift with long-term costs.<\/p>\n A characteristic example of the country\u2019s choices is its participation\u2014initially as an \u201cobserver\u201d\u2014in Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cBoard of Peace\u201d (for Gaza), at a time when several European leaders express serious reservations, and most major powers (France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy, etc.) refused to take part in its inaugural meeting.<\/p>\n In a period of profound geopolitical realignment, where great powers redefine roles and alliances, the European Union remains the only supranational project that seeks to combine democracy, social cohesion, a regulated market, and an institutional balance of interests. And yet, instead of this distinctiveness being a source of strategic confidence, it increasingly becomes a target of systematic disparagement.<\/p>\n In this environment, domestic Euroscepticism functions as a political tool. Public commentators and analysts who portray Europe as \u201cdeclining\u201d or \u201cincapable\u201d contribute to legitimising this strategic shift.<\/p>\n This is not merely well-intentioned criticism of the Union\u2019s weaknesses. It is a methodical \u201cEuroscepticism\u201d<\/strong> which\u2014working in close synergy with the active anti-Europeanism operating in the country\u2014objectively serves as the antechamber of an uncritical pro-Atlanticism, Trump-style. And here precisely a serious political responsibility arises: the responsibility of today\u2019s Greek government and a web of political, economic, and media fellow travellers.<\/p>\n They conceal that Europe remains a global leader in critical high value-added sectors\u2014in industry, in regulating the digital economy, in protecting labour rights, and in the environment. They deliberately downplay the fact that the so-called \u201cinvestment gap\u201d in frontier technologies is a recognised problem that is being addressed institutionally\u2014rather than evidence of overall failure.<\/p>\n Particularly problematic is also the stance of that segment of citizens who, while disagreeing, choose silence. Tolerance, detachment, and the logic of \u201cnothing changes\u201d function as silent complicity. At critical turning points, neutrality is not neutral; it favours the dominant strategy, even if it undermines collective interests in the long run.<\/p>\n The stake is not \u201cEurope or America,\u201d nor a foolish clash of civilisations. A barren anti-Americanism will offer nothing. The real dilemma is whether Greece will invest in a European strategy of strategic autonomy, democratic regulation, and collective power<\/strong>, or whether it will slide into a piecemeal pro-Trump alignment, where national interests are confused with the short-term pursuits of third parties.<\/p>\n The European Union is not perfect. But it is the only framework within which countries like Greece can have a voice, protection, and prospects. Those who systematically disparage it\u2014and those who remain silent while seeing strategic divergence become entrenched\u2014are not simply critics. They are, objectively, fellow travellers on a path that leads to less sovereignty, greater dependence, and political disorganisation.<\/p>\n The choice, therefore, is political and deeply value-based: European convergence with confidence<\/strong>, or national disorganisation<\/strong>, under the pretext of Euroscepticism and our subjugation to the supposedly unavoidable \u201cadaptation\u201d to the circumstances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The quiet, yet deliberate, governmental drift The government does not openly proclaim any \u201cmoving away\u201d from the European strategy. 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The responsibility of the Greek government, the \u201cuseful idiots\u201d among Eurosceptics, and social complicity<\/h3>\n
Europe or disintegration<\/h3>\n