Pol Morillas

*This article was previously published in La Vanguardia. With his recent attack on Iran, Trump has once again demonstrated his warmongering and predatory intentions, disregarding American domestic checks and balances and the international community. The attack on Iran will not be a repeat of Maduro’s capture in Venezuela or Iraq in 2003: it will generate regional instability and a wave of rejection across the Global South, which the European Union should join to defend international legality.

*Este artículo se publicó previamente en La Vanguardia. Con su reciente ataque a Irán, Trump ha demostrado una vez más sus intenciones belicistas y depredadoras, despreciando los contrapesos internos estadounidenses y a la comunidad internacional. El ataque a Irán no será una repetición de la captura de Maduro en Venezuela o de Irak en 2003: generará inestabilidad regional y una oleada de rechazo en el Sur Global, al que la Unión Europea debería unirse para defender la legalidad internacional.

This article was published in El País on 26 January. The EU is starting to understand the contours of the new world order but is trammelled by lack of political will. The United States president, Donald Trump, is a leader for those who want less European Union, although he still fails to galvanise those who want more Europe.