In a dangerous world, Europe and Britain need each other

The time for complacency about Europe as a bastion of enduring peace has come to an end.

Today, our continent finds itself at the centre of an arc of instability ranging from the battlefields of Ukraine to the Caucasus, the Middle East and the Sahel, but it often lacks sufficient tools to significantly influence the course of events in these regions.

Meanwhile, the pillars of the postwar order are crumbling. Free trade, multilateral co-operation, liberal democracy and international law are increasingly contested. All forms of interdependencies, such as energy, technology or migration, are being weaponised.

Confronted with powers such as Russia and China, and a United States whose pivot to Asia seems inevitable no matter who wins the next election, we Europeans need to do