Trump and Putin negotiating Ukraine’s future without consulting Europeans; the EU capitulating to Trump on trade; European factories choked by China’s rare-earth curbs:
Now that global decisions are increasingly dictated by hard-power realities not technocratic rules, the once-mighty EU suddenly seems like a paper tiger.
Read my latest column for Brussels Times, which analyses the EU’s four big vulnerabilities and sets out what it needs to do to become a superpower.