Dimitri Van Den Meerssche

President von der Leyen just declared that Europe “can no longer be a custodian” of the rules-based order. This marks a historical departure from the EU’s foundational logic. The Union wasn’t just a defender of that order, but it was built on the same principle: binding rules, institutions above states, disputes settled by law not power. Questioning it externally means questioning the architecture of European integration itself. Three consequences follow: 1.For the EU’s political direction: vdL has picked Merz over Sánchez; power politics over principled multilateralism. That position is now Commission doctrine. 2.For EU institutions: Kallas is being sidelined in plain sight. The HR exists to give EU foreign policy a single treaty-grounded voice. VdL redefined doctrine at Kallas’s own event, to diplomats who report to Kallas. That’s an institutional possibly constitutional revolution. 3.For European integration: a Union that suspends its own normative logic for geopolitical urgency doesn’t easily get it back. The exception becomes the new normal.

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Er bestaat een helder verschil tussen regels die niet altijd absoluut zijn en de afwezigheid van regels.