European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen is leading a growing chorus for action but progress remains slow.

In a dramatic speech in Berlin on Saturday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen painted a dystopian picture of today’s world as she reiterated her calls for an independent Europe. “Europe is facing up to another seismic change in the way the global economy works. We may be approaching a shift in the international order – one increasingly defined by power, whether economic, technological or military,” she said. Declaring a new “era of geoeconomics”, von der Leyen described unnamed…

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