Fresh Troubles for the EU

One thing unites the three great powers: all stand in increasingly strained relations with Brussels and the leading capitals of the European Union.

Thomas Kolbe | March 5, 2026

The European Union is steering purposefully toward the introduction of Eurobonds. At the preparatory EU summit at Alden Biesen Castle in Belgium, numerous signs suggest that the multi-billion-euro Draghi plan could soon be set in motion. At the same time, geopolitically, a possible Russian comeback is emerging as fresh trouble for Brussels.

The ability to analyze mistakes and rationally weigh realistic courses of action belongs, in evolutionary terms, to our conditio humana. Experience teaches us: those who repeatedly slam their heads against the same wall may not qualify as evolution’s preferred leadership model. Headaches should be understood as a warning sign -- not as motivation for the next assault. This preliminary remark serves to highlight a fundamental problem in present-day Europe.

Our political elites are conducting a socialist field experiment: they repeatedly hurl themselves against the same wall -- that of the European economy, its businesses, and some 450 million citizens -- without allowing persistent failure or pounding headaches to deter them.

One might assume this is a highly complex structure. From the perspective of European policymakers, however, it appears primarily as a challenge to be met with the fatal toolkit of central planning and stubborn ignorance.

We were able to assess the condition of this collective “head” on Thursday in Belgium at the EU summit. Brussels’ inner leadership circle around Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, along with its two political standard-bearers Emmanuel Macron and Friedrich Merz, had correctly diagnosed the issue in advance: the EU economy lacks competitiveness. China and the United States have surged ahead technologically -- and they have the audacity to position themselves diametrically opposed to Europe’s ideology of centralized control and transformation logic. The two superpowers flatly refuse to smash their heads against the wall of European delusions – CO2 elsewhere helps plants grow and herds graze, while here “flutter power” is generated alongside deliberate landscape devastation.

Instead, they have moved to radically deregulate their markets. The Chinese did so earlier; the Americans are now following at full speed,........

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