{"id":647768,"date":"2026-05-04T19:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T19:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/647768\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T19:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T19:15:08","slug":"europe-will-not-submit-to-an-insular-and-brutal-world-says-carney-european-political-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/647768\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe will not submit to an \u2018insular and brutal world\u2019, says Carney | European Political Community"},"content":{"rendered":"

Europe will not submit to a more \u201cbrutal world\u201d, and can instead be the base from which a new international order can be rebuilt, Mark Carney<\/a>, the Canadian prime minister, has said.<\/p>\n

Carney was speaking as the first non-European leader to attend a meeting of the European Political Community<\/a>, which opened on Monday amid high tensions in the strait of Hormuz and renewed doubts about the US commitment to Nato.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t think that we\u2019re destined to submit to a more transactional, insular and brutal world, and gatherings such as these point to a better way forward,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

In a pointed suggestion that the era of American leadership was coming to an end, and explaining the symbolism of Canada\u2019s attendance at a European political gathering, he said: \u201cIt is my strong personal view that the international order will be rebuilt, but it will be rebuilt out of Europe<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are demonstrating not just the strength of our values in defending a rules-based international order, but also the value of our strength,\u201d he added. \u201cThe world is undergoing a rupture across several dimensions \u2013 integration is being used as a weapon by some and the rules are not constraining the hegemons.\u201d<\/p>\n

The EPC meeting, the eighth since the organisation\u2019s inception, is taking place in Yerevan, Armenia<\/a>, a venue chosen as a way of showing Europe\u2019s determination to prevent the small Caucasus country from being dragged back into Russia\u2019s orbit.<\/p>\n

It is being held against a backdrop of fresh concern over the US\u2019s commitment to Nato after Donald Trump\u2019s surprise decision to announce the withdrawal of more than 5,000 troops from Germany, a move that has confirmed Europeans\u2019 worst fears about the reliability of the transatlantic alliance.<\/p>\n

Speaking in Yerevan, Keir Starmer, the British prime minister, said: \u201cWe cannot deny some of the alliances that we have come to rely on are not in the place where we would want them to be. There is more tension in the alliances than there should be.\u201d<\/p>\n

How leaders responded to tensions in the alliances was likely to \u201cdefine what goes on for many years, arguably for a generation\u201d, he added.<\/p>\n

The French president, Emmanuel Macron<\/a>, said: \u201cEuropeans are taking their destiny into their own hands, increasing their defence and security spending, and building their own common solutions.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said Russia would face a crucial moment in the summer, which he termed \u201ca moment to expand the war or move to diplomacy\u201d.<\/p>\n

He said if Russia did not chose to end the war it was all the more vital that sanctions packages were not lifted. He called for a workable diplomatic format in which Europeans must be at the table at any talks.<\/p>\n

As well as removing 5,000 soldiers from Germany, Trump has also suggested he might pull troops also from Italy and Spain over the governments of those countries not showing sufficient support for US-Israeli operations against Iran.<\/p>\n

As of the end of 2025 there were 36,436 active-duty US troops in Germany, 12,662 in Italy and 3,814 in Spain.<\/p>\n

Discussing the planned troop withdrawal from Germany, the EU\u2019s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, said there had been talk about withdrawal of US troops for a long time from Europe but that \u201cthe timing of this announcement comes as a surprise. I think it shows that we have to really strengthen the European pillar in Nato.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked whether she believed that Trump was trying to punish the German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, for saying the US had been \u201chumiliated\u201d by Iran in talks to end the war, Kallas said: \u201cI don\u2019t see into the head of President Trump, so he has to explain it himself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Merz himself skipped the Yerevan summit. On Sunday he told a TV interviewer he was \u201cnot giving up\u2026on the transatlantic relationship. Nor am I giving up on working with Donald Trump<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

NATO chief Mark Rutte admitted there had \u201cbeen some disappointment on the US side\u201d over Europe\u2019s reluctance to get behind the Iran war.<\/p>\n

But Europeans had \u201cheard the message\u201d, were now providing logistical support to US operations and pre-positioning \u201ckey assets close to theatre, for the next phase\u201d, Rutte told reporters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Europe will not submit to a more \u201cbrutal world\u201d, and can instead be the base from which a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-647768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}