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THE STATE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
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European and former Portuguese Prime Minister
Antonio Guterres – and, in short, the promotion
of freedom, democracy, human rights and the
rule of law as universal values and conquests
that cannot be relativized.
The task of turning the EU into a relevant
global power is one to which Spain, out of
conviction, trajectory and interest, after two
years as a non-permanent member of the
Security Council and having left behind many
months of interim government (including a
good part of 2016), can and must be at pains to
apply itself, as people are calling for in Brussels
and other European capitals.