Lavrov says Germany lost its independence since new gov’t came to power

MOSCOW – Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said that Germany lost its independence since the new government came to power.

Lavrov said French President Emmanuel Macron is now the last European leader who speaks about the political autonomy of the EU.

“Since the current government came to power, Germany has lost the last signs of independence.

“In the European Union now only, probably, (French) President (Emmanuel) Macron is still trying to somehow talk about the strategic autonomy of the EU,” the minister said.

Lavrov then said the West is unhappy to see that some states beat it in its own game, and in the first turn China, which is now playing by the West’s own rules.

“In the West, they directly say that it is time to reform economic institutions, because they were created by the West, created on the basis of those mechanisms that the Americans offered to everyone else and forced them to accept.

“It was on the basis of these mechanisms in world trade and finance that China, following these same rules, beat the West and the US and came out on top as the world economy,” the minister said.

However, he expects that despite the attempts to counteract, the big states like China, India, Brazil will continue to develop and grow and will form new centers of a multipolar world.