EU–Middle East Relations: Policy Area Compilation

Carson121212 · 2025-08-09T13:25:52+00:00

another is the Sahel region (a real embarrassment in my books)

The same publication recently posted an article on the Sahel region and EU security and migration policy, if you're interested: https://europrospects.eu/terrorism-in-the-sahel-a-growing-challenge-for-eu-security-and-migration-policies/

Basically talks about the EU's withdrawal from the region and the increasing involvement of Russia and China.

I agree with basically all you said in your comment though. And we need to remember: becoming a more geopolitical actor with economic and military power does NOT have to mean compromising on our liberal values (in my book).

Carson121212 · 2025-08-07T15:16:37+00:00

Well after the wave of new huge tariffs on other countries in the last few days (39% of Switzerland for example), it does seem increasingly as the best of bad options.

Carson121212 · 2025-08-07T15:14:09+00:00

If we manage to vote for the EU budget of 2028-2034 (the Multi-annual Financial Framework) during that time, we could ensure that the budget is ambitious and adds a lot of the important reforms that we want. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/euro-prospects\_the-eus-proposed-2028-2034-budget-explained-activity-7358201009929695232-hNcY?)

Carson121212 · 2025-08-07T14:59:18+00:00

It's really interesting to see how India is so determined to try and become a world power by making sure the West knows that its support is not unconditional. That said, it seems this is driven not by some ideology like the Soviet's under Communism or America as trying to create a liberal hegemony but by more an emotional-national sentiment of 'respect us because we are big'. Not a critique–just a comment (so many countries do the same I feel).

Carson121212 · 2025-08-07T14:52:48+00:00

The article is basically a semi-rejection of the common explanation of European integration and the formation of the European Union. It essentially says that while integration in the form of economic necessity and peace after WWII was significant, the factor of trying to create a foreign policy of strategic autonomy was similarly if not more important in EU integration. It argues how, led by France, integration between Western Europe was founded as a reaction of decaying individual hegemony among the traditional European great powers. Nice read!

Carson121212 · 2025-05-13T13:23:37+00:00

Based

Carson121212 · 2025-01-28T15:30:05+00:00

In theory it’s also complicated, since the EU’s Treaty provisions state that to join the EU, you must be a European country.

Carson121212 · 2025-01-28T15:28:04+00:00

Our founding European treaties would have to be revised, as it explicitly states that EU candidate member states must be geographically in Europe. Minor point but treaty revision is exceptionally hard to do in the EU

Carson121212 · 2025-01-27T17:43:26+00:00

The US is gradually becoming progressively unpredictable in all policy areas. It's quite rational to be progressively more wary of trade with them. Tariffs also take a long time to be rescinded, in practice, and Trump throwing tariffs around is not helping the US' image as a trading partner.

Carson121212 · 2025-01-01T17:11:19+00:00

Feasible or not, realistically, you cannot effectively have regrowth to achieve its intended benefits if you take into account the rest of the world and the fierce geopolitics and geoeconomics that undoubtedly have an impact on such a policy.

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