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There is much in this interview that merits comment, but I will stick to four basic issues: Brexit; the 2003 European Security Strategy (ESS) vs the 2016 European Union Global Strategy (EUGS); strategic autonomy; resilience in the neighbourhood.
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Brexit came as a surprise to me: I had not expected the British to vote in favour. Having said that, I think the impact of Brexit will be sharper on Britain than the EU, and on both the impact will be primarily domestic or endogamous rather than exogamous. In the short-term, the impact of Brexit will weaken both the EU and Britain economically, but most pundits in India are of the opinion that this will not impact India to a significant extent, despite the fact that our economic relations were primarily bilateral with Britain and continental with the EU.
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The interview with Nathalie Tocci starts out with the Brexit issue. Here, we fundamentally agree with the argument that it would have been pointless to postpone publication of the Global Strategy. Timing may indeed be particularly relevant to PR exercises and media campaigns, but we expect much more from this particular document than just sending a set of well packaged messages to the public. The Global Strategy – even more than its 2003 predecessor – ought to become the pillar for consensus-building among the member states on a vast array of interconnected risk assessments, tasks and policies. As such, the document is a starting point and a platform for developing more detailed and sectoral policy documents. It is obvious that the Brexit vote (which, we should recall, does not constitute the UK’s instant exit from the Union) cast a new light on the whole edifice of the EU’s foreign and security policy; yet, the rationale for a comprehensive analysis of the EU’s options is clearly there, just as it was before 23 June.
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In her interview with The International Spectator, Nathalie Tocci describes Federica Mogherini’s assessment of the present state of the European Union as “extremely sobering”. This in my view gets it exactly right: these are “make or break” days for the EU as we know it. Yet, sadly, I am sceptical whether the EU Global Strategy can help to overcome that existential crisis. In fact, I rather fear that it might make things worse.
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