Thanks for your comment! Small as it may seem, even getting EU states to agree to the concept was a step forward, as it used to be considered a French pipe dream. Implementation is another matter and there are different views. E.g., DG TRADE seems to take a very thin notion of the concept: https://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2021/february/tradoc_159434.pdf The war in Ukraine makes autonomous EU defense seem basically obsolete: it's going to be all about NATO and keeping the U.S. in, at least so far as Central-Eastern European members are concerned. Longer term, there may be more progress on industrial sovereignty in areas like space, AI, and healthcare, but it's too early for me to tell.
Another great article. But have one question for you..
How do you think Macron's vision of 'strategic autonomy' holding up now? Esp with the Ukrainian crisis, don't you think the vision is ever so bleak?
Thanks for your comment! Small as it may seem, even getting EU states to agree to the concept was a step forward, as it used to be considered a French pipe dream. Implementation is another matter and there are different views. E.g., DG TRADE seems to take a very thin notion of the concept: https://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2021/february/tradoc_159434.pdf The war in Ukraine makes autonomous EU defense seem basically obsolete: it's going to be all about NATO and keeping the U.S. in, at least so far as Central-Eastern European members are concerned. Longer term, there may be more progress on industrial sovereignty in areas like space, AI, and healthcare, but it's too early for me to tell.