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Opinion: Failed experiments in EU foreign policy
While many are quick to blame excessive nationalism for the European Union’s failure to come up with a unified defense and foreign policy, the situation is more complex. European states have different economic and geopolitical interests, and little to gain by giving them up for the sake of integration. Proponents of centralization will likely need to adopt a more realistic approach, lest the union become even more fractured.
The West needs to recognize Russia’s significance
The Biden administration is being much tougher on Russia than on China. This makes little sense. China is engaged in activities that strongly threaten U.S. and European interests, while Russia and the West can find common interests. A firm, but a more open and respectful stance toward Moscow could benefit ...
European sovereignty in global competition
Europe can ill afford to farm out its foreign and defense policies to Brussels. The centralized, technocratic command center of the European Union is best suited to attend to the common market. Europe will come back as a global actor only if the continental European member states and the United ...
China’s geopolitics, Europe and the loss of freedom
China is cunningly enhancing its geopolitical standing in the wake of a pandemic that has spread from its territory. At the same time, the Western countries’ responses to the global crisis and to China’s rise have been woefully inadequate.
A faltering Eastern Partnership
The Eastern Partnership has lacked a strategy since its creation in 2009. Designed to promote European values in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine, the project has done little to reduce poverty and corruption in participating countries. Furthermore, the latter have often found themselves struggling to balance allegiances to ...
