Expert: EU Should Compete With the US and China and Try to Become a Third Pole
Rosa Balfour, director of the think tank Carnegie Europe, says a lack of strategic convergence holds the European Union back on the international stage. In her view, the EU should compete with the US and China and try to become a third power centre.
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The European Union (EU) has still not become a full-fledged great power, and one of the main reasons is a lack of strategic convergence. This was said to the news agency LETA by Rosa Balfour, director of Carnegie Europe, a think tank that studies European foreign policy and security issues.
Balfour describes the problem as a long-standing challenge to European unity in the international arena. In other words, EU member states lack a shared view of strategic goals, which prevents the Union from acting as a single force on the global stage.
The expert believes the EU should compete with the United States and China and try to become a third pole in world politics. That would mean Europe is not merely an observer of the rivalry between the two largest powers but shapes its own influence.
The information in the source is limited: it does not detail specific steps the EU could take to overcome the lack of strategic convergence, and it does not say in what context these assessments were made.
