Now that the hurdles for the start of the self-declared 'geopolitical' commission have been cleared, president Ursula von der Leyen and her college must defend European values in building on the EU's fundamentals, not advancing glamorous generalities that they cannot hope to turn into concrete realities.
Only rigorous implementation of its own rules will safeguard its security.
Until recently, Europe had the luxury of focussing its integration process on mainly domestic issues an...
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Daniel Gros is the director and economist at the Centre for European Studies, Steven Blockmans is a senior fellow at the same institution.