A few days after the declarations from French President Emmanuel Macron (see EUROPE B12948A3), the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, took up the idea of giving continental Europe “a political reality” through the creation of a “European geopolitical community”, on Wednesday 18 May, during a speech to the European Economic and Social Committee.
Stressing the urgency of moving forward on such a project in response to the shockwaves of the Russian invasion of Ukraine,...