Is It Imaginable That Europe Will Emerge as a Real Force on the World Stage?

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In this crisis on ukraine, europe has emerged as a very important player. A lot of this has happened in a bilatical form, or coordinated actions of individual nations rather than through the former mechanisms of a european union. So actually, is it imaginable that europe will emerge as a real force even for as henry kissenger famously complained? I gus thare's two different questions here, fo right? One is whether the european unions are going to be central to this. The other is whether europe as a continent is going to be a major play on the world stage.

Radosław Sikorski is a Polish politician and journalist who is currently a Member of the European Parliament. He served as Defense Minister of Poland from 2005 to 2007, and as Foreign Minister from 2007 to 2014.

In this week’s conversation, Radosław Sikorski and Yascha Mounk discuss whether a unified Europe could play a real geopolitical role on the world stage in the future, reasons to be skeptical of the realist view that NATO or the West is to blame for the war, and the role of sanctioning Russia (and Russians) now and in the future.

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