The EU common foreign and security policy in a world beset by new challenges
By John Palmer
Our vision is for a transformed Europe in a transformed world. We are at a critical global conjuncture with Trump 2.0 marking the ripening, over a decade, of the politics of Brexit. To address the challenges of today – extreme levels of inequality, oligarchization, authoritarianism, environmental destruction, climate catastrophe, and conflict – we need to rethink and restructure our economic and political systems ‘from below’.
Our aim is to support efforts that strengthen community power from below and combine this with transnational solidarity across borders. We will bring together communities of activists and thinkers that reject not only the dead-end politics of authoritarian nationalism, Brexit and xenophobia but also the idea that the status quo is working or that we can somehow ‘return’ the UK to the pre-2016 Europe.
Our vision for rejoining the European Union is about putting the UK back on the path to integration in a reformed and progressive European project. In the short term, we will argue to adopt the single market and further programmes of co-operation with the EU.
We recognise that popular opinion supports more co-operation with the EU and will work with others to ensure this is expressed, while recognising that any changes in the relationship needs to be based on mutual benefit. Alongside this, we will continue critiquing the shortcomings of the EU and campaigning for the long term goal of ecological transition; economic and political democratisation; and social justice in a cosmopolitan and pluralist Europe.
These goals are about making another Europe, and another world, possible. To this end – and recognising the acute challenge of the present moment, with rising nationalism and authoritarianism – much of our work is engaging in the ‘battle of ideas’, creating a current of thinking among our supporters and co-thinkers globally based on a vision of internationalism that is democratic, human rights based, progressive and radical in rising to the many challenges that the 21st century poses so sharply.
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