For too long, we absolved ourselves from the need to define, enforce & defend our interests in the world. 🌍💪
That needs to change ❗️ Investing in the capabilities to match this aspiration will be the defining task of this year.
@DiskutierMitMir
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/davidmcallister/status/1655985330883788802
#GlobalGateway is a prime example. It is no longer enough to make a verbal case for our liberal-democratic model.
The #EU needs to practically demonstrate to other countries that we can make better #infrastructure offers in a transparent way, at eye level, and without debt traps
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/davidmcallister/status/1655986053260492806
When it comes to #security and #defence, the idea of strategic autonomy it is often conflagrated with abandoning the #transatlantic relationship or with making the EU a military superpower💪
Both would be illusional ❗️
But we need to take our security more into our own hands.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/davidmcallister/status/1655986308643160079
The #StrategicCompass 🧭gives life to this role by defining 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲, 𝗵𝗼𝘄 and 𝘄𝗵𝘆 the #EU might engage with its military and civilian tools to achieve our objectives over the next decades.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/davidmcallister/status/1655986872823185439
We are slowly but surely complementing our traditional raison d'état as a normative power with that of an external security provider.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/davidmcallister/status/1655988505560875025