Quo vadis Europa? The birth of geopolitical Europe

“Our founding fathers had already in mind to create a federal Europe and a European Defense Community, at the very heart of NATO. The “end of History” is not here anymore: we have entered a new world of Empires that compete with each other. The key question is what is our place in this new order.” Guy Verhofstadt

“The conflict at the world level is between nationalism and federalism. Instead of forming nations that always look back on history with a dangerous nostalgia, we Europeans have chosen to look forward, towards a greatness that none of our nations had ever known.” Giorgio Anselmi

“What does sovereignty mean today? The less formal sovereignty you have, the more real sovereignty you can aspire to, because giving up sovereignty to the EU allows you to increase your capacity to act and make decisions that you would not otherwise be able to adopt.” Josep Borrell

“Our union is very poorly adapted to the use of force because the EU was born precisely to avoid wars and not enter into military conflicts. We wanted to abolish war, but now we are in a world of empires which want to recover the glory of their own past” Josep Borrell

“An intense association between Europe and Latin America can contribute to strengthening the multilateral system and redirecting it towards the fundamental principles that both parties, in general terms, share” Susana Malcorra

“For China, foreign policy derives from the adversarial relationship with the United States, and we Europeans are seen by them as instruments in a broader power struggle” Mikko Houtari

“Latin America has not always been a rule-taker in the international system: the region is the founder of several of the principles that are now enshrined in the United Nations charter. The very principles that the Russian invasion of Ukraine has called into question.” Jose Antonio Sanahuja

“When the Soviets realized that they could not compete economically or militarily against the West, they began covert tactics to disrupt and create dissension among their enemies. Now Putin is using those tactics.” Catherine Belton

“The Russian system does not use propaganda as an instrument: it lives within propaganda. It does not need reality: it exists by itself” Carmen Claudin

“Indifference is Putin's best friend, just like ignorance. People do not want to know the truth about the special operation: they block the information because they do not want to be on the side of evil” Andrei Kolesnikov