The Middle East is on the brink of all-out war - so why is the EU still navel-gazing? | Nathalie Tocci

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : EU governments reached rapid agreement on new appointees to the top jobs in Brussels, with an ambitious yet well-balanced trio of von der Leyen as Commission president, António Costa as the European Council president, and Kaja Kallas as high representative for foreign affairs.
46% : But given the protectionist mood in Brussels, and the growing belief that partnerships should be pursued transactionally in pursuit of EU interests (was it ever done differently?), it is unclear how much additional traction the EU will actually have in Africa.
44% : The renewed wave of nationalist-populism in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and now Austria has caused fractures within the European Council, where EU governments make decisions for the bloc.
44% : It has also been shockingly oblivious to the outcry in many countries of the global south to the protectionist effects of EU legislation, such as its carbon border adjustment mechanism and its flagship deforestation regulation.
40% : He has outlined a stark choice: against the backdrop of the economic-technological competition between the US and China and Russia's military invasion of Ukraine and weaponisation of energy, EU leaders must either jump-start closer integration or their union is destined to a future of stagnation, if not disintegration.

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