Authors:Florent Marciacq
Date:15 July 2024
Document type:Commentaries
Two years have passed since Emmanuel Macron proposed establishing a European Political Community (EPC). Yet the idea, promising as it was, remains fraught with strategic inconsistencies. The fourth and fifth summits of the EPC, hosted by the United Kingdom on 18 July and Hungary on 7 November, will be a call on re-assessing the EPC’s raison d’être and ambitions. What a progressive Europe needs today, is not another catch-all potpourri of summit diplomacy, it is the cohesive and pioneering engagement of a (smaller) group of states putting their weight in reaffirming the fundamentals of Europe’s security order.