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Lip service to global solidarity is not enough. What is needed is empathy and humility, not outmoded Eurocentric arrogance

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EU should admonish less, and listen more, to the Global South

This is no time for short attention spans. Last week's mega jamboree, aka the UN General Assembly, is already history as we grapple with new and pressing EU priorities.

Yet if as many claim geopolitics really is the EU's true calling, the bloc should learn lessons from what did — or rather did not — happen at the UN.

True, there is much to fret over: Georgia Meloni is poised to head a far-right government in Italy, member s...

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Shada Islam is an independent EU analyst and commentator who runs her own strategy and advisory company New Horizons Project. She is also the editor of the EUobserver magazine.

Lip service to global solidarity is not enough. What is needed is empathy and humility, not outmoded Eurocentric arrogance

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Shada Islam is an independent EU analyst and commentator who runs her own strategy and advisory company New Horizons Project. She is also the editor of the EUobserver magazine.

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