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"Brexit’s underlying geopolitical expectations have turned out to be mistaken." My joint piece with chairman of the foreign affairs committee in Bundestag @n_roettgen gmfus.org/blog/2019/03/2…
"Pursuing it under the new global conditions of increasing great-power competition—centered around the United States and China—risks marginalizing the United Kingdom economically and geopolitically."
"A revamped EU could become an opportunity for Britain. Instead of going it alone and finding itself rather lonely and highly vulnerable in a competitive world in which bigger powers and blocs call the shots."
"An EU in which London would play a co-leadership role might look less like the all-invading super-state Brexiters fear and more like a concert of mid-sized powers asserting their joint views and interests on a global scale."
"And, with the United Kingdom on board, such an EU would be more likely to initiate a transatlantic renaissance, a renewal of the free and open order of the west."
