Where is the European Union after the French presidency?

Asked about the impact that the war in Ukraine could have on the acceleration of European construction, Patrick Martin Genierspecialist in European issues, evoked “an awareness that with this war in Ukraine, Europe was in danger“. The situation would thus have enabled the Europeans to show themselves to be more coherent and united than they had been until then.

The teacher at Sciences Po believes that these tragic events have “Safe [l’Europe] of a form of institutional lethargy. We were no longer able to decide anything, the unanimous vote, we no longer knew what we wanted to do in terms of taxation, and it was also a moment of getting out of the Covid crisis.“, he lists. The war in Ukraine would therefore have forced the European Union to react in solidarity and immediately, in particular by voting for economic sanctions against Russia which forced countries like Germany to “a real political revolution“.