After tumultuous years, the EU seems to have fresh purpose - has Russia prompted a Brussels rebirth?
EU leaders are facing a direct challenge to Europe's post-Cold War security structure
Yet the bureaucratic, often bickering behemoth that is the EU has already been transformed by the Russia-Ukraine crisis. Let's take a step back to get some perspective: Brussels' cooperation and co-ordination with Nato and the US are smoother and closer than they've been in a long timeThe EU was already aware - certainly after the 2016 Brexit vote, if not before - that it needed some serious self-improvement.
A bloc that, along with many national governments, was perceived as helping banks instead of families after the 2008 economic crisis. An entity, decades after the Second World War, that had lost its vision, mission and recognition as a force for peace in Europe. The EU's Foreign Policy Chief, Josep Borrell, has appealed to EU leaders to display the same drive and resolve shown in face of Covid when dealing with the Russia-Ukraine crisis and resulting challenges.
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