Foundations of a Foreign Policy

Values also serve as a guideline for foreign policy. But what if it is no longer clear what Europe stands for in terms of values? A commentary by Karl von Habsburg.

In early February, the Presidium of the Paneuropa Movement Austria adopted a position paper on the 2019 European elections. One of the points refers to „peace, security, rule of law“ as principles of European foreign policy, as well as „the commitment to religious freedom and against the persecution of Christians in many parts of the world“. The Easter attack in Sri Lanka, with more than 300 dead, has once again drastically demonstrated how much Christians worldwide suffer from persecution and terror. This brutal attack was, moreover,