The EU can’t replace the US as a global player until it sheds its own colonial thinking | Shada Islam

The EU could become an important standalone global actor and thrive in a multipolar world.

But it must shed its Eurocentric worldviews, complacent policymaking and double standards.

Ursula von der Leyen has announced plans to build a “new EU ” that can shape a different world order.

Shada Islam is confident that stronger EU engagement with the global south could help bring geopolitical stability to an unsettled world.

But it will require more than von der Leyen ’s rhetoric and wishful thinking, she says.

Islam is a Brussels -based commentator on EU affairs.