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Europe is closing out 2025 in the same strategic debate that defined its beginning, albeit now under conditions of significantly heightened uncertainty and tension. The continent is striving to define its own strategic autonomy while simultaneously seeking a response to the diplomatic “blitzkrieg” coming from Washington, even as decisions are still being made on the terms of a just peace in Ukraine and on the future security architecture of the wider European space. Rather than actively shaping its own framework for the post-war order, however, the European Union is increasingly confined to a reactive role, write Eva Rybková and Maria Gorbatova.
27. December 2025
The publication was produced in 2025 as part of a project by the EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy entitled “Europe as a Long-Term Task – Representation of a Czech Think Tank in Brussels.” The project was supported through the grant programme of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic “Priorities of Czech Foreign Policy and International Relations”
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