Valdai Club

Zach Battat

Fabienne Bossuyt

Iwona Borkowska

Sergey Brilev

Sanjaya Baru

Irina Bolgova

Lo Bobo

Samuel Bendett

Anatoly Borovkov

Enes Bayraklı

Turkey

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Enes Bayraklı, SETA Brussels Coordinator

Materials

How the COVID-19 Pandemic Exposed EU’s Weaknesses

The EU’s failure to prevent and manage crises does not only concern crises outside of the Union’s borders. The EU has been equally slow and inefficient during intra-Union crises, writes Enes Bayraklı, Associate Professor at the Turkish-German University.

The Crises of Europe

After the end of the Cold War, the US established itself as sole the global player. Together with the US, NATO also expanded its power, even though it had to set itself new goals with the fall of the Soviet Union.