EU Policies and Global Challenges - Overview on European Union nowadays

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ABSTRACT

The European Union is more unique than rare. There is no international institution like it in the world. It is less of a sovereign state than a federation, but undoubtedly stronger than its constituent countries.
If we were to compare the EU to the United States, we could say that the difference lies in this: the European Union is a union of European states, while the United States is an American union of states. Who is stronger today? Over the past seventy years, the EU has evolved from a simple community of a few states — namely, Italy, France, West Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands — to a solid and competitive geopolitical entity. The nemesis of those events today is the unconscionable anti-European policy of Hungary’s Orban, who, just twenty years after that country’s acceptance into the European Union and NATO, dares to obstruct Ukraine’s accession to NATO and the EU in every way possible. The new European Union is now threatened precisely in its geographic and political integrity and safety by the aggressor country of Ukraine and the policies of its dictator Putin, wanted by the International Criminal Court in The Hague for the most heinous war crimes: the kidnapping and deportation of thousands of innocent Ukrainian minors since February 24, 2022. This, above all, is the principal global challenge facing the European Union today: peace. Because if so many migrants, from North Africa and Asia, continue to prefer the European Union to other countries, it is because the Union is a free, prosperous, and equal democracy and it defends the values and rights of civil coexistence, without any ifs or buts. Our goal today is to keep it this way. Forever.

INDICE

I Chapter – INTRODUCTION

II  Chapter – THE EUROPEAN UNION: HISTORY, BODIES, POWERS, FUTURE (by Paola Gentile and Rossana Interlandi)

1. The history of the European integration
2. The Institutions of the European Union
3. Power and Relationships of the European Union
4. The future of the EU
5. Conclusions

III Chapter – THE POLICIES

1.The European Union: community multilateralism in future geopolitical scenarios (by Pierluigi Sabatini)

2. The European Union’s defense policy (by Giuseppe Maria Balducci)
3. The economic policies of the European Union (by Andrea Di Capizzi)
4. European Union migration policies (by Luigi Leonardo Di Biase)

4.1 From Trinidad de Cuba to Brussels, passing through Rome, Asmara, and back again (Spanish version by Nicell de la Caridad Gonzalez Gonzalez, translation in English language by Lesvia Leonides Rodriguez Gardò)

5. Green Deal: when ambition and rush can compromise an entire continent (by Marta Rivoli)
6. Europe’s digital pursuit (by Joseph Coffa)
7. The EU policies on civil rights (by Sarah Pappalardo)

IV Chapter – GLOBAL CHALLENGES: THE EU IN THE REST OF THE WORLD

1. What is the European Union to People in the United States? (by Maria Galli Stampino)
2. Two South-Atlantic Perspectives, one shared hope (by Yalitza Ramos)
3. How the European Union is seen from Cuba: perceptions, challenges, and strategic pathways (by Lesvia Leonides Rodriguez Gardò)
4. Eritrea – EU ties of cooperation: past trajectory and future prospect (by Yemane Ghebremeskel)
5. How Iraqis view the European Union (by Mohammed B. Qazwini)
6. How does Ukraine see the EU nowadays? (by Pier Francesco Zazo)
7. Vietnam discovering the EU: moving from bilateral relations to the cooperation with an integrated Union (by Marco Abbiati)
8. Awareness of the European Union in Australia (by Ildebrando Ceolin and Marco Lazzarino)
9. As the European Union sees the rest of the world: political, economic, social and human rights perspectives (by Rossana Interlandi)

V Chapter – CONCLUSIONS

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