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If Vance’s Speech Didn’t Wake Up Europe, Nothing Will - Other News - Voices against the tide

By Ulrike Franke* – World Politics Review The terms “wakeup call” and “shock treatment” have been overused in debates about European security and the trans-Atlantic alliance over the past few years. As fitting as these descriptions may be, given the fundamental challenges that Europe is currently faced with, there are only so many times that Europeans can wake up or be shocked before the terms—and the mental states they refer to—become meaningle…