In July 2024, six months before the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria, ten EU countries, led by Austria and Italy advocated normalisation of relations with Damascus. The diplomatic volte face was led by a tacit belief that Assad will retain power with a stated aim of ‘safe and dignified’ repatriation of the Syrian refugees and internally displaced people.
The timing was especially significant; global human rights agencies were reporting on the life of inmates inside Assad’s many dungeons of terror, where grotesque torture methods of medieval Europe were put to shame.
Article 2 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU) explicitly states its foundational values: “The Union is founded on the values of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights, including the rights of persons belonging to minorities. These values are common to the member states in a society in which pluralism, non-discrimination, tolerance, justice, solidarity and equality between men and women prevail.”
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