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Ensuring the safety, #security, control, and #sustainability of critical #energy #infrastructure is an indispensable aspect of maintaining overall energy security. ⚡️ To this end, both the European Union🇪🇺 and NATO are intensifying their efforts to enhance collaboration and resilience in this critical domain. #europe #energysecurity #enerji #pipelines #naturalgas #oilgas #electricity

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Great infrastructure project but at what cost?

📢 #Interreg is one of the key instruments in #EuropeanUnion to finance the cooperation between different regions of the Member States. Our expert, Maria Macedo, explains everything in a series of videos that we prepared for you ⏯

Bridging the Digital Divide in Mongolia: Connecting Remote Areas with High-Speed Internet

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European countries are increasingly vulnerable to external pressure that prevents them from exercising their sovereignty. This vulnerability threatens the European Union’s security, economic health, and diplomatic freedom of action, allowing other powers to impose their preferences on it. To prosper and maintain their independence in a world of geopolitical competition, Europeans must address the interlinked security and economic challenges other powerful states present – without withdrawing their support for a rules-based order and the transatlantic alliance. This means creating a new idea of “strategic sovereignty”, as well as establishing institutions and empowering individuals that see strategic sovereignty as part of their identity and in their own interest. Most fundamentally, the EU needs to learn to think like a geopolitical power. To manage in this new world, the EU and its members need to embark on a broad-based effort to recover their strategic sovereignty. The most sacred aspect of sovereignty is the ability to defend the nation against external threats. Since the end of the cold war, most EU member states have not felt substantially threatened in this regard. They were collectively among the most powerful military states in the world, and they sheltered behind the protection of the US. But an assertive China, a resurgent Russia, an America more focused on the Indo-Pacific than Europe, and a host of asymmetric threats from other powers and non-state actors means that most EU member states now face new security vulnerabilities that they lack the capacity to defend against on their own. Europe should upgrade its security activities, and seize the moment to push multilateral institutions up the agenda. But it will be Europe’s connectivity agenda that provides the golden thread running through its foreign policy and its other objectives in the region

Great to be in Budapest today to discuss how Europe can reinforce its role in the world and how we can provide concrete answers to people’s concerns - be it on migration, on energy, on jobs or on security. At the European Political Community - bringing leaders of EU and non-EU states to the same table - the common message was that we must act together and take bold steps. We will deliver.

What if greater unity in the European Union could help us save a lot of money? EU countries could join forces to tackle common issues in key sectors such as energy, healthcare and defence. By buying together, they could have greater buying power and get better prices. 📑 Our study ‘Ten ways that Europe could do more for you - Mapping the cost of non-Europe’ investigates the costs of not setting an ambitious policy agenda at EU level – the 'cost of non-Europe'. The costs include not only economic costs, but also costs to society, European values and the environment. More coordinated and common EU action in specific areas could reduce these costs and bring added value for society. Watch https://lnkd.in/e6b2Pb6Q and 🔎 Dig deeper into our analysis of the cost of non-Europe: https://lnkd.in/edH-jJ4d