Is the European Union really unable to defend itself ?
Today, the assessment is unequivocal:
the European Union is incapable of protecting its citizens or protecting itself as a political unit and even less able to defend itself as a geopolitical actor.
At heart, the dilemma facing European democracies today is the same as that faced by the young American states during the War of Independence and which Benjamin Franklin summed up on 9th May 1754 in the Pennsylvania Gazette in a three-word formula that all citizens, whatever their level of education, could understand: Join or Die.
[ > French Institute for International and Strategic Affairs — September 8, 2020 ]
