Europe minus the perspective

A Western media outlet considered the European Union to lack the necessary strategy to face the new difficult international era in the shadow of the Trump presidency over the United States.
The Swiss newspaper "Tags Anseiger" in an article outlined a difficult outlook for the European Union in the shadow of the Trump presidency in the coming years and wrote: European countries are facing a new difficult international era. The presence of " Ursula von der Leyen", President of the European Commission, at the Davos Economic Summit showed that the Union still lacks the necessary strategy for this.
The article continues: The world has not looked very promising since "Donald Trump", the new President of the United States, was sworn in on January 20.
Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, also said at the Davos World Economic Forum: With the coming to power of the President of the United States, a new era of intense geostrategic competition has begun.
In short, this situation is as follows: everyone against everyone and everyone for themselves. The world’s three dominant economic powers – the US, Europe and China (with a gas station attached to Russia) – are no longer trying to work together on agreed rules for mutual benefit, but are each trying to achieve the best outcome for themselves.
Essentially, these three players are competing for access to raw materials, technology, trade routes and markets. Europe, which has benefited greatly from the old order, may be worried and upset by this situation, but it cannot change it. More disappointingly, von der Leyen, the EU’s most powerful representative, did not outline a clear vision of how Europe should deal with this new situation in her speech at the Davos Economic Forum.
The European Commission President did offer ideas to boost the European economy. But her plans seemed pointless. The solutions that the EU Commission has been trying to implement, such as a capital markets union, cheaper energy, and less crippling bureaucracy, are certainly not wrong. But do they really address the root of the problem? Is this the mindset with which Europe should enter the new era?
The appropriate urgency and sense of this bitter reality were instead evident in the speech in Davos by Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, whose country is not part of the European Union but who seems to believe in its power more than many of its leaders. In Davos, the Ukrainian president painted a picture of a confident Europe that is not content with being third or fourth in the competition with Washington or Beijing, because it has significant added value to offer.
Zelensky believes that Europe currently looks at the United States with fear. As an example of European cognitive dissonance, he cited the truly bizarre situation in which Europe hopes and asks the United States to protect it from Russia, but at the same time continues to buy billions of euros worth of liquefied natural gas from Moscow every year.
Zelensky is right, of course; This is a scandal and a spectacular geostrategic folly. Who should take such partners seriously in these circumstances? Ukraine's conclusion is that Europe must learn to take care of itself in a way that the world cannot ignore.