GLOBSEC Megatrends 2022

While the EU began to Ukraine to procure military equipment and weapons.5gradually act in a more united manner a few years following the euro financial crisis and soon after While the use of sanctions in not new to the EU in the the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine has seen the pursuit of its foreign policy objectives, the swift and EU become a major geopolitical actor nearly overnight. [...] focused on the “EU’s response to the war in Ukraine”, This pre-emption strategy has not been characteristic EU citizens expressed satisfaction with the bloc’s of EU policy in the past but new realities on the generally unified response to the war (63%) and the ground are leading to new modes of operation. [...] And the specific measures adopted in Re-thinking Europe’s future response to the war are further seen as appropriate including those seemingly more contentious in nature The March 2022 Versailles Declaration of the Council – these encompass hard sanctions against Russia of the EU promoted the common responsibility to and Russian oligarchs (80%/79%), the purchase and “protect EU citizens, values an. [...] The adoption of the Compass is a step and the cancellation of Nord Stream 2, the financing and forward and a reasonable attempt to extract whatever delivery of military equipment including lethal weapons to feasible from the existing treaties and legal framework. [...] The multiple crises the Union has strategic sectors and energy and to promote the EU found itself in over the past decade including the financial to the status of a standard-setter in environmental and crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, trade policies and an active protector of multilateralism however, should compel the bloc to re-think and re-shape and the rules-based internati.