EU Strategy 2025-2029: We Have the Instruments, Now Set the Objectives
- Asia-Pacific,
- EU and strategic partners,
- EU institutional affairs,
- EU strategy and foreign policy,
- Europe in the World,
- European defence / NATO,
The EU is very creative at designing and putting to use instruments. Think of how the European Peace Facility (EPF) became the tool to support Ukraine’s war effort. Other instruments with great potential are the Global Gateway, the European Defence Fund (EDF), and de-risking. But is the EU always sufficiently clear about the objectives these instruments are meant to achieve? An instrument is not a policy. At the start of a new European legislature, the EU should take the time for a strategic review: to update and reconfirm the assessment of the environment and the definition of the objectives. Then it should allocate resources, accelerate, and deploy its impressive array of instruments for good purpose.
This policy brief is not about Trump: one cannot “Trump-proof” the EU, let alone the world, just like one cannot “Putin-proof” or “Xi-proof” it. The only thing that could and should have been “Trump-proofed”, but wasn’t, is the Republican Party. This brief is about what the EU and its Member States can do, proactively, to safeguard their interests.
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