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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
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John Psaropoulos

Amid war, Europeans support a more ‘geopolitical European Union’

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, left, with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg [File: Francisco Seco/Pool via Reuters]

A new survey of public opinion in European and North American countries shows faith in Europe’s geopolitical importance growing, as confidence in the United States’s long-term influence falters against a backdrop of the war in Ukraine.

While two-thirds of respondents in this year’s Transatlantic Trends survey see the US as the most influential actor in global affairs today, little more than a third see it as holding that position in five years time.

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