The EU's €50bn package for Ukraine is a far cry from its rhetoric
Editor’s note (February 1st 2024): EU leaders agreed on a €50bn support package for Ukraine on the morning of February 1st. As Yugoslavia threatened to…
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Editor’s note (February 1st 2024): EU leaders agreed on a €50bn support package for Ukraine on the morning of February 1st. As Yugoslavia threatened to…
A help set to be agreed next week is no match for the challenge | Europe
To survive and prosper in a world of battling giants, Europe must transform itself from a militarily weak confederation into a genuine superpower.
Because the Balkans' future depends on integration into aEuro-Atlantic framework within the next decade, the BushAdministration should encourage the leveraging of EU economicincentives to bring about a resolution of Kosovo's final statusthat opens the door to NATO accession for qualifying Balkancountries and allows for drawdown and redeployment of the 7,000American troops stationed in Kosovo.
In an effort to create "one telephone line" to Europe, the EU's proposed Lisbon Treaty, successor to the European Constitution, would remove foreign policy from the intergovernmental sphere andmake it a supranational EU competence. An EU foreign policy will becharacterized by inaction, Franco-German dominance, and an attemptto limit American power.