German President, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, says Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has plunged Europe into an era of insecurity.
President Frank-Walter Steinmeier says “When we look at the Russia of today, there is no room for old dreams,” referring to former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev’s dream of a “common European home”.
He said “It has also plunged us in Germany into another time, into an insecurity we thought we had overcome: a time marked by war, violence and flight, by concerns about the expansion of war into a wildfire in Europe,”.
The German President said “Harder years, rough years are coming.”
The President, who is from a wing of Germany’s Social Democrats that long argued for closer economic ties to Moscow, said the February 24 invasion had ruptured those hopes.
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