L’UE è la nuova potenza media a cui rivolgersi – In un mondo di disordine, la noiosa stabilità del blocco diventa improvvisamente attraente.

I think calling the EU a middle power is category error. It isn’t a single power and given the size of it’s economy and military middle doest sound right

The EU isnt a middle power, it’s a large group of middle powers turning into a superpower.

Let’s see how stable it is in 10 years.

Middle power is not an adequate description. ‘Or great power is. The EU is strange, both weak and omnipotent, which os why MAGA nationalists and far right types across the world hate it. They see what it might come to represent to them.

It is multidimensional and hard to grasp, and scholars in international relations, especially those of the so-called realist breed, in the US have been at pains to describe something they do not understand.

Europe’s potential is far beyond that, if we could get our shit together, we could become a Superpower on our own merit.

The USA and Russia would hate it tho.

Judging by what I was able to read from the free excerpt, the EU is called a middle power solely on the grounds that the US and China are superpowers, while everyone else is of a lower order.

 I’m confident that Trump will successfully deal with America’s might by destroying it, and the US and the EU will end up on an equal footing in that regard

Perhaps it’s time for Europe to take over the world again to make it stable and boring s/