The EU is becoming an engine of war
Building the union was never a “peace project”. But European hard power is now its leaders’ greatest priority.
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Hans Kundnani
Hans Kundnani is an OSF Ideas Workshop fellow and the author of Eurowhiteness and The Paradox of German Power. He is also a New Statesman columnist.
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