\u201cA little less conversation, a little more action.\u201d<\/p>\n
That line from an old Elvis Presley song could double as a critique of Europe\u2019s position right now \u2014 and as a prescription.<\/p>\n
On this episode of EU Confidential, host Sarah Wheaton speaks with former Spanish foreign minister, Arancha Gonz\u00e1lez-Laya, about how Europe should operate at a moment when power is exercised more bluntly and patience for rules is wearing thin. Her core argument echoes Presley\u2019s advice: Europe isn\u2019t powerless \u2014 it just needs to use the leverage it already has.<\/p>\n
Gonz\u00e1lez-Laya, an ex-EU trade negotiator and now dean of the Paris School of International Affairs at Sciences Po, explains what Europe\u2019s leverage looks like in practice: deeper cooperation on energy and defense, and a more assertive use of the internal market. She describes these as Europe\u2019s antidotes to Trump-era chaos \u2014 exemplified by his renewed claims over Greenland and the capture of Venezuela\u2019s president \u2014 and discusses how Europe could respond to the situation in Iran.<\/p>\n
Later, in another installment of the Berlaymont Who\u2019s Who series, POLITICO\u2019s Aitor Hern\u00e1ndez-Morales takes a closer look at Dan J\u00f8rgensen, the EU\u2019s commissioner for energy and housing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cA little less conversation, a little more action.\u201d That line from an old Elvis Presley song could double…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[17648,132669,6215,38231,473,31,365,32,35,2000,26256,299,65408,5187,7058,2816,366,774,2441,770,104,1201,1772,49,8518],"class_list":{"0":"post-699068","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-affordable-housing","9":"tag-arancha-gonzalez","10":"tag-cooperation","11":"tag-dan-jorgensen","12":"tag-defense","13":"tag-democracy","14":"tag-denmark","15":"tag-donald-trump","16":"tag-energy","17":"tag-eu","18":"tag-eu-confidential","19":"tag-europe","20":"tag-europes-housing-challenge","21":"tag-european","22":"tag-european-defense","23":"tag-european-politics","24":"tag-greenland","25":"tag-iran","26":"tag-markets","27":"tag-poland","28":"tag-spain","29":"tag-trade","30":"tag-u-s-politics","31":"tag-united-states","32":"tag-venezuela"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115902763742340986","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}