# 6 .24 - Quo Vadis EU Peace Mediation? Maintaining the Skill of

The reemergence of great power rivalry and increased The EU leadership taking office in 2024, including the new recourse to military power-based geopolitics has High Representative of the Union for Foreign and Security undoubtedly sharpened the sense that peace-making and Policy (HRVP), Kaja Kallas, and the President of the European peace mediation are in crisis. [...] It then explores rather linked to increased competition among great powers, the EU definition of peace mediation and its objectives, a rise in the number of middle powers and the fraying of the followed by the analysis of key factors interplaying in the norm of non-aggression that needs to be met with increased geopolitical landscape of conflict and how they do and will resolve to give diplomacy a. [...] To establishment) to dismiss the EU’s rhetorical attachment to explore how EU mediation practice is affected by the new peace mediation as a façade to mask an unwillingness of context, the next section outlines the foundation of what EU neutral states to confront the realities of global power peace mediation is really about. [...] states coupled with the creation of a European Commissioner In this respect, the leadership of the EU should display for Defence and Space are indications that the EU takes its its script and leitmotif of diplomacy and dialogue. [...] Views expressed in the College of Europe Policy Briefs are those of the authors only and do not necessarily reflect the positions of either the series editors or the College of Europe.