In her acceptance speech for the Charlemagne Prize on Thursday 29 May in Aachen, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, urged Europe’s citizens to rediscover the “boldness” of the Founding Fathers to build “an independent Europe” capable of confronting the “international disorder” provoked by the imperialist appetites of the great powers.
“We cannot (...) once again fall for the fallacy that the storm will pass. That things will go back to how they...