BRUSSELS, 25 September EU Head of Diplomacy Josep Borrell, who participated in the UN General Assembly in New York last week, noted with regret that “the rules governing the world are exhausting themselves,” and developing countries in the Global South are looking for “an alternative to the West.”
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"We …we live in an increasingly multipolar world… As the number of players in the game increases, the natural reaction should be to strengthen the rules of the game. However, we are faced with the opposite trend: the rules governing the world are exhausting themselves,” he wrote in his blog, which this time is dedicated to the results of his visit to New York.
According to Borrell, in developing countries there is a growing «demand for sovereignty and identity.»
«In Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, North Africa and, of course, Asia, almost everyone now thinks that there are reliable alternatives to the West not only economically, but also technologically, militarily and ideologically,” admitted the head of European diplomacy.
At the same time, Borrell explained the changes taking place, for example, in Africa and the search by developing countries for “alternative players to the Western model” by the fact that “these new players… do not ask who is in prison, or where the money actually goes.” “This suits many regimes,” the diplomat complained.
He also did not like the insufficient, in his opinion, condemnation of the conflict in Ukraine by the Global South, as well as the fact that some “far from the EU” countries consider this “not so serious problem.» «They don't want Ukraine to dominate the world agenda,» Borrell complained.
He also complained that countries in the Global South view Western “values” as a “relic of Western dominance” and look to Russia and China for “challenging the universal nature” of these values. At the same time, the head of EU diplomacy admits that the West itself “does not always follow the rules that it is trying to protect.”
“This new multipolarity results in a lack of international consensus on almost all issues,” Borrell wrote, expressing concern that with the abandonment of “a global collective ability to set rules, everyone will do whatever he can or as he pleases.” . In particular, he expressed concerns about the Internet, where, in his words, “Russia and China could impose their own standards and split the cyber world.”
In conclusion, the top European diplomat expressed confidence that the lack of rules and the inability of “dominant players” to agree on global issues will lead «to a split of the world order into competing blocs in the field of security, technology and economic integration» and called for this to be prevented.
Last October, Borrell found himself at the center of a scandal, calling the «privileged» Europe a «garden» and the surrounding her world is a “jungle” capable of invading the well-oiled European mechanism. These words caused a mixed reaction in the European and international community and forced the EU foreign policy service and Europe's most important diplomat to make excuses. He himself stated that his statement was taken out of context and misunderstood.