EU Geopolitics examines how the European Union uses its collective economic weight, diplomatic influence, and security tools to shape its neighborhood and the wider world. This category explores enlargement, sanctions, trade policy, energy security, and crises like Russia’s war on Ukraine and tensions in the Indo‑Pacific.
"We are going to take action regarding Greenland, whether the locals agree or not," Trump declared aboard Air Force One earlier this month. "If we cannot approach it the straightforward way, we will resort to tougher measures." When pressed at a Davos press conference on how far he would go, Trump offered a cryptic two-word response: "You'll find out."
Without fundamental reforms that move it closer to this federal model, the European Union will remain at risk of missing strategic opportunities, reacting too slowly to geopolitical shifts, and ceding influence to more agile and decisive global rivals. The EU-Mercosur story should therefore be seen as a warning: in a world that does not wait, institutional paralysis is a direct threat to Europe's long-term prosperity and security.
