[share author='Emeritus Prof Christopher May' profile='https://zirk.us/users/ChrisMayLA6'; avatar='' link='https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6/114493319866258359'; posted='2025-05-12 05:56:56' guid='7ba760df-0926c34cc2ddd78b-5dabd67c' message_id='https://zirk.us/users/ChrisMayLA6/statuses/114493319866258359';]Marc De Vos (Itinera Institute) argues that a stark choice confronts the European Union.
Either it acts as a consolidated political unit in security affairs - working in consort on defence & military affairs - or it will see its members working together in various combinations - varying 'collations of the willing' on different issues - that will see the EU increasingly side-lined as geopolitical forces require more strident responses.
An existential threat to the EU?
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]If Europe cannot become proactive and strategic, the geopolitical cross-currents will eventually divide it politically and marginalise it geopolitically. European nations face the challenge of a new world order as a matter of necessity, not of choice. Either they succeed in channelling a response through the EU, or countries’ individual responses will gradually sideline the bloc. The emergence of ad hoc “coalition[s] of the willing” is a benign harbinger of what could become an existential threat.[/img][/share]
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