| Summary/Abstract |
The European Union Global Strategy belongs to the class of documents that are easy to criticize and hard to defend. It is clearly a fine-tuned compromise between many states, institutions and political views. As a compromise, the EUGS is doomed to be somewhat declaratory, ambivalent and even, at times, inconsistent and shallow. One should recognise the commitment and the courage of Federica Mogherini, who made an uneasy and seemingly counterintuitive decision to release the EUGS right after the Brexit vote in UK. Everybody inside and outside of Brussels would have understood if the release had been postponed by a couple of months; today the EUSG has become the target of many harsh reviews and ironic comments.
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