On Wednesday 22 November, European Commissioner for Neighbourhood Policy Johannes Hahn said while the EU helped many countries in the world financially, it was not yet a global power, or even a regional one.
"What we have to do, to improve in the future, is to pull what we are doing in a way that you can produce political leverage", he said at the "Global Trends to 2030" conference. "In many areas we are probably the biggest payer worldwide, but we are by far, not yet, a real regional...