{"id":5147,"date":"2026-02-20T12:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T11:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michael-von-der-schulenburg.com\/europe-now-needs-the-courage-to-pursue-peace\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T19:14:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T18:14:55","slug":"europe-now-needs-the-courage-to-pursue-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michael-von-der-schulenburg.com\/en\/europe-now-needs-the-courage-to-pursue-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe now needs the courage to pursue peace"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"5147\" class=\"elementor elementor-5147 elementor-5135\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-63a19a0 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"63a19a0\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5b05d79f\" data-id=\"5b05d79f\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-96010b3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"96010b3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h4 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">A call for peace on the 4th anniversary of the war in Ukraine <\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4a2c2bf elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"4a2c2bf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h6 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Harald Kujat, Michael von der Schulenburg<\/h6>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-789ac66 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"789ac66\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6f347cc3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6f347cc3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The world is currently experiencing one of the most profound geopolitical upheavals since the end of the Second World War \u2013 an upheaval in which the European Union is scarcely perceived as a formative force anymore. As a result, it risks becoming the big loser in this global realignment.<\/p>\n<p>The EU now finds itself in what is probably the most difficult situation since its inception. In the east, it faces an increasingly hopeless war in Ukraine; in the south, Israel, one of its closest partners, is engaged in several military conflicts that it can no longer win. At the same time, the transatlantic alliance is being put to the test by its hopeless commitment to Ukraine. While Russia is demanding Ukraine&#8217;s permanent neutrality and the annexation of areas in eastern Ukraine that are important in terms of security policy and geostrategy, the US wants to expand the American hemisphere by reaching for the strategically important Greenland of its NATO ally Denmark. In Iran, there is the threat of a completely uncontrollable war that would plunge Europe&#8217;s neighbouring region of the Middle East into years of unrest. And with China, the emerging global power, the EU cannot find a stable mode of cooperation. The new group of BRICS-plus countries, which now outnumbers the EU demographically and outperforms it economically and technologically, is being negligently ignored by Europe.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cc102d5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"cc102d5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/michael-von-der-schulenburg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Europe-needs-courage-to-persue-peace.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Read the full article (PDF)<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A call for peace on the 4th anniversary of the war in Ukraine Harald Kujat, Michael von der Schulenburg The world is currently experiencing one of the most profound geopolitical upheavals since the end of the Second World War \u2013 an upheaval in which the European Union is scarcely perceived as a formative force anymore&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/michael-von-der-schulenburg.com\/en\/europe-now-needs-the-courage-to-pursue-peace\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-war-in-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael-von-der-schulenburg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael-von-der-schulenburg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael-von-der-schulenburg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-von-der-schulenburg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-von-der-schulenburg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5147"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/michael-von-der-schulenburg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5153,"href":"https:\/\/michael-von-der-schulenburg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5147\/revisions\/5153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-von-der-schulenburg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael-von-der-schulenburg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-von-der-schulenburg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-von-der-schulenburg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}