Carnegie Strategic Europe: Experts answer a question on the foreign and security policy challenges shaping Europe’s role in the world.

Jacek Kucharczyk, President of Institute of Public Affairs: While climate change threatens the future of our existence, and authoritarian regimes and movements continue to assault democracy and rule-based world order, the EU is undergoing yet another round of internal upheaval; this time because of Brexit. 

The process of leaving the EU—triggered by former prime minister David Cameron’s irresponsible plan to deal with the UK’s domestic political convulsions—has already harmed the British economy, polarized and alienated its citizenry, and depleted the country’s considerable soft power more>>>