Maria NEGREPONTI-DELIVANIS1
Abstract. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the current economic and political situation of the European Union (EU), in the given changing international landscape. The paper contains two parts. In the first part, the analysis is focused on the current problems the EU is facing now with the war between Russia and Ukraine, and the fights in Israel. Also, it is analyzed the position of the EU with respect to the USA. The most important issue is the economic gap between the Western countries and the East-South countries. That generates many frustrations in poor countries’ populations. A second significant issue is the decreasing demography of Europe. The second part of the paper focuses on the possible solutions the leaders of the EU may consider in order to align it to the initial vision of the EU founders.
Keywords: European Union, political analysis, economic analysis, international changes, populism.
1 University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece
PUBLISHED in Journal of Knowledge Dynamics, Volume 1, No1