The EU has a new think tank, the Brussels Institute for Geopolitics. The launch ceremony was attended by Scholz, Macron and Rutte. “Europe must learn to act, but also to think, geopolitically. The Institute will be a catalyst for articulating specifically European strategic interests” – Macron

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  4. Also EU has a long list of ex chancellors, prime ministers, ministers who started new careers as consultants / managers in Russian companies owned by Russian state or Putin’s oligarchs.

    One of those in the picture is still colleague with Gerhard Schröder in the same party.

    Also have you noticed that no one from Central or Eastern Europe countries is a founding member.

    Probably we should call this foundation the Putin whores” establishment who refused to call Russia’s invasion wars a genocide and actively pleading not to humiliate Putin.

    Before this war I was a big supporter for EU federalization, a common EU army and a much bigger EU integration.

    Now I hope that the Central and Eastern Europe will never fell off for the lies of giving away their veto right.

  5. 3 Western Europe countries show supremacy by thinking what is best for the rest of Europe.

    I am curious how this will affect my country and Bulgaria entrance to Schengen Area, and how these 3 will know what is better regarding geopolitics. I hope this will not end up in dividing Europe in West-East. Since some of us are regarded as second class.

  9. France and Germany were appeasing Russia for many years – but somehow it is the Europe that needs to learn to act and think geopolitically.

  10. >This shift in thinking poses tough and profound questions. Strategy and geopolitics were never what the European Union was designed for. They sit at odds with the Union’s self-image as a global beacon for peace and rules-based order.
    And yet, to preserve its democratic openness on the inside, Europe must strengthen its posture to the outside, practising Kant at home and Machiavelli abroad.

    Some people never learn. If they think successful geopolitics is about being Machiavelli abroad, then why do they think the US has the influence it has? This isn’t the 16th century. We live in an era of nation states, and you can’t have geopolitics without POLITICS. If you act like a Machiavelli then nobody will trust you, and you will have no influence. If you want soft power abroad then you need to be trustworthy, reliable, show a demonstrated convergence of interest with your foreign partner, and you need to have organic good relations with them.

    You know who follow’s Machiavelli in their foreign policy? Russia.

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