Is the EU Losing its Global Influence?

Experts say the EU struggles with fragmented foreign policy and weak leadership. This hinders its ability to be a major global player amidst shifting geopolitics. Internal divisions and lingering nationalism threaten the EU's relevance on the world stage.

Is the EU Losing its Global Influence?
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The European Union (EU) faces a crisis of leadership and credibility that prevents it from assuming a leading role in the new geopolitical and economic configuration that is being experienced globally, internationalist academics from UNAM and the Universidad Panamericana agreed.

During the conference The place of the European Union in the world in the face of major international conflicts, the head of the European Union Studies Program at the Acatlán Faculty of Higher Studies, Luis Antonio Huacuja Acevedo, commented: