Workshop: B025 The EU, the war and climate change
Summary
Under the catch phrase "strategic autonomy" the EU wants to play a big power role in the international system. With the Ukraine war the EU has fallen back into the position of a junior partner under US leadership.
Description
The erosion of transatlantic relations under the Trump administration has
lead to ambitions to transform the EU into a more autonomous player in the international system against the background of the emergence of a polycentric world order. This also included efforts to militarise EU foreign policy. Since the beginning of the Biden administration, these efforts were countered by the US, which has taken a leading role in the formation of a Western alliance against China and Russia. Just like during the Cold War 1.0, the EU region of Europe has once again been reduced to the status of a junior partner. As Russia’s neighbor, the EU is also much more affected by the consequences of the war – from migration and the economy to its capacity to cope with climate change and other global problems.
