| The need for Europe's strategic autonomy

Le Regard Libre N° 80 - Clément Guntern

Contrary to all expectations, the European Union has not emerged particularly weakened from the health crisis. On the contrary, it has been able to take important initiatives for its future. But is it prepared for the new world of rivalry and competition between powers? The question of strategic autonomy, currently under debate, will be crucial.

Since the First World War, Europe's place in the world has been steadily eroded by military, moral and economic defeats. This gradual erosion of its position and that of its individual states continued steadily throughout the 20th century and beyond. This downgrading and the relinquishing of all geopolitical responsibility to the sponsor in Washington did not seem to be able to be counterbalanced p