THE STATE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION. Reforming Europe in a time of war

Contents	5
Introduction: The war in Ukraine makes reform of the European Union more necessary than ever	7
The Conference on the Future of Europe: an inadequate approach that will have to be corrected in the implementation phase	13
Social Europe: Retaining the status quo during the pandemic, avoiding new disparities	23
Europe’s moment of truth on its way to the moon. The EU’s energy and climate policies are put to the test. The result could be a genuine Energy Union	33
Politics in Europe: elections, changes and trends	43
The shortfall of the European migratory and asylum policy	49
The Rule of Law Situation in the European Union	55
Lessons learned from the war in Ukraine	71
Spain at the helm of the European Union in stormy times: For an ambitious agenda for the Council Presidency in 2023	83
The European Union on the global stage. European strategic autonomy	93
Biographies	101

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