The pandemic should increase our appetite to be more autonomous
(World News Russia)

In all this, think tanks play an important role, by bringing people with different backgrounds, together from all over Europe, and by injecting new ideas. I am always pleased to take part in these debates and I enjoyed the exchanges I had at the annual meeting of the European Council on Foreign Relations. For a good hour, in a conversation moderated by Helle Thorning-Schmidt, we discussed everything on the menu of EU foreign policy. We need realism and our own lenses to analyse the world The starting point of our discussion was the recognition that the pandemic is acting as the Great Accelerator of world history. We have growing inequalities, within Europe but also globally - and even within...