‘A world in disarray’: Europe’s moment of awakening

Facing existential challenges on trade and security, the bloc has finally realised it has to grow up and go it alone – but the path ahead is a rocky one•...

By Jon Henley Europe correspondent · The Guardian World

Facing existential challenges on trade and security, the bloc has finally realised it has to grow up and go it alone – but the path ahead is a rocky one • Don’t get This Is Europe delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Emmanuel Macron put it simply – and starkly. Confronted with “a world in disarray” and a double, potentially existential challenge from the US and China, he said: “Europe must become a power.” The bloc is facing “a Chinese tsunami” on trade, Macron told several European newspapers , as the country most Europeans had for decades seen principally as an infinite export market transforms itself instead into a ferocious, low-price, hi-tech competitor. Continue reading...