Ukraine is forging a more realistic EU foreign policy

While the Ukraine war has exposed the inadequacy of the EU’s policy set up, the year-long crisis is also forging the foundation for a more realistic foreign policy posture on the part of the EU. This argument is presented by DIIS senior researcher Fabrizio Tassinari and Lykke Friis, pro-rector for education at the University of Copenhagen, in an article recently publishedinThe Conversation.

This would be based, they argue, on narrowing thecapability-expectations gapunderstood in terms of the separation between unrealistic rhetoric about the global reach of European unity and a more disappointing reality of shrinking capabilities and watered-down compromises.

The article was published inanticipation of a seminar that DIIS, the University of Copenhagen and European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) organize on 9 Marchat theUniversity of Copenhagen.