French President Emmanuel Macron had myriad ambitious ideas for how to futureproof the EU, but little success in implementing them. Talking to IPQ, he urges his fellow leaders to focus more on Africa, which will see a “spectacular transformation.”
What single step would advance the EU right here and now? IPQ asked leading think tankers from across Europe for their one “big idea.”
Europeans need to boldly re-engage in shaping not only their continent’s security order but also its broader political structures.
The Merz government has the chance to improve the country’s geoeconomic resilience and strengthen its global economic position with its proposed new Economic Security Strategy.
Economic security is fast emerging as a strategic priority for Europe as a whole. The EU is expanding its partnerships with like-minded allies, yet its engagement with the UK remains merely nascent. This should change.
US efforts to dominate advanced technology supply chains have deepened the EU’s anxieties about its technological dependencies. Achieving greater strategic autonomy in this field is a formidable challenge.
China and the United States have always used economic statecraft, while Brussels preferred to think about economic security. This needs to change.
In an interview, the chair of the Committee on International Trade in the European Parliament, Bernd Lange of Germany’s center-left Social Democrats (SPD), discusses how the EU can survive in the new era of geoeconomics.
The European Union is ill-equipped to deal with the dilemmas emerging from the new age of geoeconomics. It requires a new body to decide on strategic questions and trade-offs in an accountable way.
The post-1945 global order was less stable than it now appears. It is therefore hardly surprising that it is changing and needs to be rebuilt. To last, it will need to be anchored in values again.
The US president is trying to impose a new model for trade and investment on the world. It’s as globalist as the old one. Ironically, his efforts may eventually lead to a better version of globalization.
The United States is retreating from efforts to address global problems collectively, removing huge resources and expertise. While the short-term consequences are dire, the process needs to be seen as part of a grand global rebalancing.
