The President of the European Council, Charles Michel, speaking on Monday 28 September, at a Bruegel think tank event, proposed that European strategic autonomy should be built on three pillars: - ensuring environmental, social and economic stability; - disseminating European standards internationally; - and promoting European values.
“We remember Paul-Henri Spaak's saying: 'There are only two types of states in Europe: the small ones... and those that don't know they are yet'. This has...