Keir Starmer’s resignation in the UK, the sixth in a row over the last ten years, suggests a genuine crisis not only in the UK but across European politics.
A more self-reliant Europe could also stimulate greater defence-industrial cooperation, increased arms exports, and new opportunities for technological and industrial partnerships with smaller states. It may ultimately contribute to a more multipolar international security environment in which European powers exercise greater strategic influence.
The failure of the observer mission to engage with the question of inclusiveness suggests a selective view of the elections
The US has accidentally left a vacuum that Europe has been taking advantage of to establish itself as a geopolitical power. Europe does not have to remain hooked to the shackles of the dependency that was the Cold War, but now, it can move in its own direction and make new alliances and address what concerns it.