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A geopolitical Europe: Recognizing the European Union’s silent transformation while realizing the difficult leadership choices ahead

What follows is the extended version of the laudatio given by Marc De Vos at the 2025 Quadriga PolitikAward in honour of EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen receiving the award of ‘Politician of the Year’.
Marc De Vos stresses how, under the leadership of a geopolitical commission, the European Union has taken the transformational road towards geopolitics. He lauds this first phase of geoeconomics while warning that we have now embarked on a second phase, that of geostrategy: areas of defence, security and territory. A unified geostrategic European Union is a challenge we have to meet, but it is a challenge with severe flash points that could prove to be choke points for the future of a strong Europe in the new world order.
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