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The EU struggles with how to respond to Russia's tactics, trapped between overestimating Moscow's strength and underestimating its hostility, writes our Director Steven Everts in POLITICO.
What Europe needs is a strategy not just of containment or building resilience but of "unpowering Russia" — systematically reducing the Kremlin's ability to harm the bloc. Europe is far from powerless — it is simply under-leveraged.
EUISS' Chaillot Paper, 'Unpowering Russia', proposes a strategic playbook to shift from defence to disruption, and hit Moscow where it hurts most.