All of us in Europe form part of a bigger community: the European Union. And we, too, have to decide how we want to organise ourselves internally and how we want to relate externally. On both fronts, some difficult questions are now being asked.
At home, we hear voices questioning the value of European integration and the need for us to go on working together as a Union to be stable and prosperous. Globally, we face a world where the rules-based order is weakening, old and new powers are rising, and climate change is becoming the pre-eminent challenge of our age.