''The EU has its Trojan horses and Nato’s cornerstone has crumbled. But European allies, including the UK, are bound by an urgent shared purpose.

 Putin and Trump appear to share a plan: a Vichy-like regime in Ukraine and a European continent split into spheres of influence, which Russia, the US (and perhaps China) can colonise and prey upon. Most European publics sense this. A critical mass of European leaders gets it too. They are beginning to act.''

Out of Putin’s war and Trump’s treachery, a new Europe is being born | Nathalie Tocci | The Guardian

 

A new Europe is emerging.

 It is not the traditional EU, for that 27-country union is too unwieldly to act to rapid geopolitical and security changes.

However, the European Commission is deeply involved in the construction of the new Europe as seen by recent financial moves:

1. The loosening of eurozone fiscal rules agreed last week to permit a massive increase in spending to rearm Europe

2. The setting up of new financial tools to bolster European defence.

3. The completion of the EU single market, and the push for a much bigger common EU budget.

 Nato members outside the EU are playing a key role too. The UK, Norway, Canada and Turkey will help to provide security assurances for Ukraine. 

Long live Europe.

 

If so, it will be the first time in recorded history and for at least 2,000 years.  Even the Romans never managed it, so don't hold your breath. Europe will do what it has always done in the face of a serious,  existential threat, it will disintegrate into dysfunctional National factions, following their own paths into disarray.  Only this time, it may be fatal, economically, financially, socially and certainly militarily