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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12406

18 January 2020
EXTERNAL ACTION / Foreign affairs
soft power’ is not enough for EU, acknowledges Josep Borrell
Brussels, 17/01/2020 (Agence Europe)

The High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, said on Thursday 16 January, that the EU should not settle for being a 'soft power'.

He said that in today's world, in order to control their destiny, “Europeans are beginning to realise that we have learn to talk the language of power”. “Because being a soft power is not enough”, he said in a speech at the Raisina Dialogue 2020 in India.

The European Union was built not to use power. But...

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