We all live under the same sky, but we don’t all have the same horizon,” Adenauer once said. The European Union, forged crisis by crisis, has brought peace and prosperity, yet remains fragile in vision and sovereignty. From Germany’s unexpected centrality to the mirage of “strategic autonomy,” from the dilemmas of Ukraine and enlargement to Europe’s dependency on the United States, the same questions return: has Europe truly built strength, or merely survival?










