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This month the European Union celebrated the 20th anniversary of its biggest-ever enlargement, which brought 10 new members into the bloc. That event remains a potent reminder of the EU's potential to advance peace and unity ...

EU institutions are struggling to chart a vision for 27 member states, so how can they accommodate as many as 36?

Amid escalating geopolitical tensions, and with European Parliament elections looming, the narrow passage last month of the European Union's Migrant and Asylum Pact has attracted relatively little attention. To be sure, the agreement is more remarkable ...

Once the sick man of Europe, Germany seems to be under the weather once again. That might be putting it mildly: much as it did in the late 1990s, Germany is staring down the barrel ...

International media are brimming with pronouncements that the West is in decline. The institutions that have formed the foundation of the rules-based international order since World War II are on the brink of collapse, we ...

The past year was an eventful one, to put it mildly. In fact, the world has endured so much war, disruption, tension and uncertainty that we're left to wonder whether the rules-based global order, which ...

At the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai, world leaders will, for the first time, officially take stock of global progress towards the goals set out in the Paris climate agreement in 2015. ...

Even before Hamas's barbaric attack on Israel catapulted the Middle East back to the forefront of global geopolitics, the European Union recognised the critical importance of Turkey as a bridgehead to the region. Yet the ...

Last week's BRICS summit—bringing together the leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa—was touted as a pivotal event that could change the contours of international relations. Some compared it to the Bandung conference ...

Recent climate negotiations have been heated, to say the least. Beyond the usual recriminations over financing, the choice of Sultan Al Jaber—chief executive of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company—as the president of the upcoming United ...

Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin's weekend rebellion has shone a harsh spotlight on the apparently fragile state of Russian President Vladimir Putin's regime. While Prigozhin soon agreed to stand down and ordered his mercenary army ...

The war in Ukraine has raised the spectre not only of Russia's disintegration but also of a catastrophic nuclear confrontation.

Si bien todas las elecciones son importantes, las muy próximas al Parlamento Europeo lo son especialmente, tanto por el momento –en España y en Europa– en que tienen lugar, como por la influencia que esta Cámara proyecta sobre nuestra vida cotidiana. Es esta, por ello, una buena coyuntura para reflexionar sobre nuestro proyecto de Unión, desterrando el maniqueísmo que o bien erige a Bruselas como materialización de todos los ideales, o bien encarna en Bruselas todos los males que atenazan a los europeos. En un mundo en mutación en el que tras la crisis es utópico soñar con volver al ayer, los europeos podemos y debemos sustentar una mirada crítica y realista, a la par que confiada en nuestro futuro común. Sin perder de vista que Europa cuenta –y contará– unida, mientras que, de no ser así, la totalidad de las naciones que la integran desaparecerán de la primera línea de los actores globales. El nuevo mundo está ahí y mirarlo de frente ayudará a reforzar nuestra compleja identidad. ; While all elections are important, the forthcoming elections to the European Parliament are particularly relevant, due both to the time—in Spain and in Europe—when they take place and to the influence extended by this Chamber to our daily life. These are therefore good times to reflect on our Union project, banishing the Manichaeistic view which either regards Brussels as the materialisation of all the ideals or embodies in Brussels all the evils which beset Europeans. In a changing world where, after the crisis, dreaming about going back to the past is unrealistic, Europeans can and must look into our common future with a critical and realistic, and at the same time confident, eye. Without forgetting that Europe only counts—and will only count—if it remains united; whereas, if not, all the nations comprising Europe will disappear from the front line of global actors. The new world is out there and looking at it in the face will help us strengthen our complex identity.