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Facing global crises, Europe rearranges the diplomatic deckchairs

Many dreams haunt the corridors of European Union institutions in Brussels, the ghosts of summits past. Perhaps one day the continent’s administrators could spur the growth of home-grown tech champions, thus ending Europeans’ reliance on Silicon Valley giants. Maybe, in this life or the next, Eurocrats might devise a way to make France stick to the bloc’s budget rules. Still more improbably, Brussels-based mandarins could one day find a way to forge a unified foreign policy that satisfies the union’s 27 member states, thus allowing the continent to speak to the world with a single voice. That’ll show the Americans, Chinese and Russians that the EU is a force to be reckoned with!

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