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remaining 27 Member States agree to a greater extent. The recent imple-
mentation of permanent structured cooperation (PESCO) represents a key
step towards an essential goal: “strategic autonomy”, which will entail the
establishment of a European command centre equipped to facilitate the
planning of executive and non-executive civilian and military missions.
In sum, the Union faces a range of challenges in 2018, the most daunt-
ing of which is the troubling rise of nationalism and exclusionary powers
with a distinctly anti-European streak.
In order to counteract this tendency and enter the 2019 election season
on the best possible footing, the Union – in other words, its Member States
– must broaden their horizons and move beyond the current situation
fraught with nationalist and protectionist tendencies and narrow self-inter-
ests. Pursuing a genuine European project is by far the best alternative.