India, June 21 -- President Trump's unilateral resignation from the role of the world's policeman may ultimately arrive at precisely the moment Europe needs to rediscover its own strategic autonomy.

"We are in a new age of empires and this time we are the colonies," said Italian opposition leader Carlo Calenda, commenting on the geopolitical times we live in. "There is great interest in the United States, China and Russia to see the European Union dismembered, as commercially each of the countries would be far easier prey," he observed.

Speaking at the FII Priority Europe 2026 conference in Rome, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama offered a very different perspective. "I speak about Europe as a convinced European, because I consider the E...