Global Profile: Josep Borrell, The EU High Representative/Vice-President (2019–2024)

Cementing the EU's place as a regulatory empire.

For most Americans, the European Union is just a market with a flag. Smaller than the US and a little bigger than China. They see it as an inefficient bureaucracy that is too slow and cautious to change global politics.

The EU’s central problem is that while it can articulate its values, issue statements, and impose one-off sanctions, these are done as …