Despite strong incoming leadership and an ambitious plan for the next institutional term, a sense of defeatism is spreading across the EU. Rebuilding faith in collective European action must be the top priority.

by Stefan Lehne
Published on October 1, 2024

On the face of it, the EU’s institutional transition of 2024 has been going well. The radical right once again failed to make a decisive breakthrough in the European Parliament elections. By choosing Ursula von der Leyen as European Commission president, Kaja Kallas as EU high representative, and António Costa as its own president, the European Council came up with a leadership team that—unlike the present one—might actually be capable of working together.

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