Hugo Dionísio
Throughout 2024,
we have all heard the term “European values” used countless times by von der
Leyen, Borrel, Kaja Kallas, and now António Costa as a weapon against opponents
and as a supposedly civilizational wall against elected enemies. Values such as
the “promotion of peace” or “solidarity and mutual respect between peoples”
have come to coexist with a logic of confrontation, in which the level of
fanaticism with which these values are waged against others has become the main
element of evaluation and performance, and the guarantor of individual
promotion in the chain of power.
