I hope this blog can help create better understanding of the issues on which we are engaged. Thank you for giving these thoughts your time and attention.

But I will try to present here my personal views, looking through the glasses of a convinced European, on the main issues at stake for Europe and its global role. The responsibilities of the HR/VP do not always allow me to speak out as clearly as I would like. With this blog, I intend to take a step back and contribute to building a European common strategic culture. In particular common ground among Europeans, which is the duty of the HR/VP. We have to understand these different positions if we want to look for a common ground. We live in a permanent ‘battle of narratives’ about the issues that determine our future. Some things are definitely true and others false, but we have to deal with different positions on almost all subjects. I do not agree with the relativism of 19th-century Spanish philosopher de Campoamor claiming in a famous poem that nothing is true or false and that everything depends on “the colour of your glasses”. As any observer, I am influenced by my own perspective. The post of EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy / Vice-President of the Commission (HR/VP) offers a wide-open window on the world. In European foreign policy, we are permanently confronted with conflicts in our neighbourhood, growing competition between rival powers, challenges to the multilateral system and our values, disputes over the terms of trade and who sets the rules on technologies, and the global effects of climate change – to name just a few issues we deal with every day.

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