The Commission has been negotiating trade, assistance and policing agreements with neighbouring states for 40 years. This involves projecting the dominance of the EU's rules-based order into neighbouring societies. That is a geopolitical project with major security implications
The UK needs to start looking at the EU Commission from the perspective of the kind of third country it is becoming.
Geopolitics encompasses power projection in a whole range of military, legal, economic, policing, cultural and institutional spaces.
An EU Commission that systematically works to turn neighbouring states into rule takers is a self-aware geopolitical actor
An EU Commission that systematically works to turn neighbouring states into rule takers is a self-aware geopolitical actor
