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European strategists keep thinking about vulnerabilities and dependencies. Adopting a “middle power mindset” instead would help them to focus on the continent’s strong points—and on how to use them.

It will not be possible to secure Ukraine without the EU changing its approach to enlargement.

Beijing is largely unconcerned by recent US actions. From a European perspective, China may now appear more reliable than the United States. But Chinese policies and strategic objectives have not changed.

The Europeans lack their own ground-based deep-strike capabilities. These missiles must be produced very quickly and in huge numbers.

While European publics have a very unfavorable view of Trump’s America, the same is not necessarily true of the rest of the world.

Brussels has started contributing considerably to the overall strengthening of what has long been an elusive concept: NATO’s European pillar.

Britain and Germany should forge a military partnership to shape the arc from Greenland to the Black Sea.

Both the foreign and the domestic German secret intelligence agencies are changing.

Europe is ill-prepared for the new age of great power politics. Berlin needs to lead in a participatory and inclusive way.

Taking charge of Venezuela's oil reserves is part of the Trump administration's vain attempt to dictate global energy policy.

Without their common currency, EU member states would have struggled to absorb the economic shock of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. 

The foreign policy chief is speaking bluntly in order to help Europe assert itself in world affairs.