With Urmas Paet, Vice Chair of the EP’s Foreign Affairs Committee, on EU’s Global Strategy

04/12/2020 Inside Europe, Podcasts

As part of our podcast series supported by Science 14, we talked with Mr Urmas Paet, Vice-Chair of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the European Parliament and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia, about the effectiveness of the EU’s 2016 Global Strategy for Foreign and Security policy today in practice. The issues we touched upon were the concepts of strategic autonomy and principled pragmatism, a possible revised Global Strategy, using qualified majority voting for foreign policy, and whether or not the EU has what it takes to become a true global leader.

Flo Van den Broeck

Before joining Vocal Europe, Flo Van den Broeck worked as an intern at the Belgian Permanent Mission to the United Nations in Geneva and the Consulate General of Belgium in Marseille. She furthermore has a Master’s degree in (contemporary) History from KU Leuven, after which she obtained an Advanced Master in European and International Studies from the Centre International de Formation Européenne. During her studies she also spent half a year on Erasmus exchange in Strasbourg. Besides Dutch, her native language, she is thereby fluent in English and French, and has basic knowledge of Spanish and German, and notions of Arabic.