The EU-UK reset exposes the limits of a “geopolitical Europe”

The EU-UK reset exposes the limits of a “geopolitical Europe”

It was in the interests of both the EU and the UK to talk up the deal signed at the summit at Lancaster House on 19 May – the first of its kind since the UK left the EU in 2020. Keir Starmer said the agreement showed that the UK was now “back on the world stage”. The European Commission president, Ursula Von Der Leyen, said that it was “historic” (a term that Starmer also used when the UK signed trade deals signed with India and the US recently)…

A new economic and geopolitical order is emerging, with three poles of economic gravity: the United States, China and the European Union. Each of them presents structural strengths and weaknesses and a system of different governance, which ultimately determines the political orientation. This new order favours geoeconomic logic over traditional economic logic. In this world, increasingly governed by geopolitical considerations, energy security p…