In a speech at Charles University in Prague on Monday 29 August, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called for an enlarged Europe that defends its fundamental values both against the bellicose authoritarianism currently raging on its borders and against the ‘illiberal’ democracies within it, and for a Europe capable of innovating to master the technologies of tomorrow.
Noting that the European Union was born as a peace project for the European continent, Mr Scholz described the Russian...