EU: new realities

IN early March, European Commission President Ursula van der Leyen announced the ambitious €800 billion project Readiness 2030. The decision was a direct outcome of the waning of the nearly eight-decade-old North Atlantic security architecture. With US President Donald Trump and his associates’ threats of a reduction in America’s financial commitments to Nato, Trump’s push for a hasty peace deal between Russia and Ukraine and the US Indo-Pacific pivot, the EU has been compelled to scale up defence spending. The announcement of the project sends a clear message to the US and the wider...
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