Faced with Russian or Chinese threats, the European Commission insists: “This is the time to invest in the power of democracies. This work begins with the core group of our like-minded partners: our friends in every single democratic nation on this globe”, said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in her State of the Union address on Wednesday 14 September.
From the closest to the furthest away, the President considers firstly that the EU candidate countries should be...