Eoin Drea is senior researcher in the Belgium-based Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies.
Now is not a time for grand geopolitical ambitions, but rather concrete economic achievements


Europe is new to the concepts of geopolitics and power maximization. Brussels is still adapting to a world where its rules based, regulatory approach have been superseded by the eruption of the U.S.-China rivalry. © Torsten Sukrow/SULUPRESS.DE/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images
Eoin Drea is senior researcher in the Belgium-based Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies.