The European Union can no longer rely on soft power to promote its interests and...
BERLIN - The European Union can no longer rely on soft power to promote its interests and must develop more security “muscle” and policy focus on trade, incoming European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Friday.
“We must go our own European way with confidence,” she said in Berlin. But she added: “Soft power alone won’t suffice today if we Europeans want to assert ourselves in the world. Europe must also learn the language of power.” A former German defense minister who will be the Commission’s first woman chief, she was picked by EU leaders as a unity candidate and part of a package to break a stalemate over who should run the EU’s top institutions.
It was in the EU’s interests for countries in the West Balkans to have the prospect of accession to the bloc, she said.
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