International Scientific Conference Squaring the Circle : the New Global Dynamics (2026) [pp. 165-168]
AUTHOR(S) / АУТОР(И): Csaba István Stefán
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.46793/7067.3731.165IS
ABSTRACT / САЖЕТАК:
It is often said in EU political circles that, despite the absence of new treaty changes, the European Union has become more integrated than ever over the past fifteen years. Many point to the role of crises in this development. As Jean Monnet remarked, “Europe will be forged in crises, and will be the sum of the solutions adopted for those crises.”2 Monnet appears to have been right. Russia’s war against Ukraine, followed by the second presidency of Donald Trump, has, for example, unlocked much deeper cooperation in foreign and security policy, even though these are precisely the areas in which supranational EU institutions were, in principle, never meant to lead.