EU Strategic Autonomy after the Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Europe's Capacity to Act in Times of War

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“…The contribution by Niklas Helwig follows on the war in Ukraine to discuss the EU's strategic autonomy. He argues that the EU has focused on underscoring an agenda of strategic autonomy across three axes: protecting itself from foreign intervention, providing a competitive economic environment and projecting its norms and values at the global level (Helwig, 2023). The contribution analyses the objectives of this agenda in confronting the challenges emanating from Russia's aggression mainly on the EU's ability to collectively design and decide its own strategy to influence global developments by setting its own terms of interaction.…”