Nowe sojusze dla Europy – jaki kierunek w zmienionym porządku światowym?

The European Union (EU) has launched the European Health Union to strengthen the global health architecture and health systems in its member states and worldwide. These efforts are, however, highly constrained by critical dependencies on external inputs, most prominently medical products and financial contributions to the global health architecture. The EU must overcome these dependencies through mutually beneficial partnerships with countries facing similar challenges. Europe’s ability to forge these partnerships will depend on overcoming the “donor-recipient” mindset, enabling local value creation and creating multilateral structures that also serve new allies. France and Germany can become important drivers in making a new offer to potential partners to jointly diversify supply chains and finance the global health architecture. The honest starting point is a unified European and, in particular, a unified Franco-German voice.

The era of Western predominance, dependable alliances and capable multilateral institutions has given way to shifting balances of power and deepening uncertainty. Few actors face this shift as acutely as the European Union (EU). The central challenge for the EU is not how to defend a familiar system but how to remain secure and relevant in an unfamiliar one, with the ability to shape what lies ahead. This paper addresses four important areas in which Europe must revise outdated assumptions to navigate the new emerging order: critical economic dependencies, European defence, democracy in the age of AI and international alliances. The EU’s most important task is to turn its apparent weaknesses into a strategic advantage. The very rules and slow, technical procedures often criticised for slowing the Union down can also make it predictable, fostering trust and reliability. As Washington reduces relations to short-lived transactions and Beijing weaponises them, the EU can credibly promise partners something rarer: commitments that outlast any single election or summit.