- giraudjeanbaptiste0
- 15 oct.
- 2 min de lecture
Le 2 Octobre 2025 s’est tenue à Copenhague la 7ème réunion (semestrielle) de la Communauté Politique Européenne (CPE).
Les « principaux résultats » en ont été résumés sur les sites du Conseil de l’UE et de la Présidence de la République :
Lorsqu’elle fut lancée par le Président Macron le 9 Mai 2022, la CPE avait suscité quelques interrogations - notamment sur la notion de « continent européen » (1).
Les 7 réunions tenues depuis lors ont certainement démontré son utilité et renforcé sa vocation à devenir une sorte de « voûte de l’architecture sécuritaire européenne » (« An Overarching European security Architecture »).
C’est du moins la conclusion d’un long article (2) rédigé par MM. Luuk van Middelaar et Antoine Michon dont nous reproduisons ici quelques extraits :
Continental diplomacy for a new era
The European Political Community from Prague to Copenhagen
In essence, the EPC today fulfils four roles: a platform to demonstrate solidarity withUkraine; a roundtable for discussing sharedstrategic interests; a UN-style setting favouring intracontinentalconflict resolution; and, finally, a political one-stop shop to strike all kinds ofside deals.
Solidarity with Ukraine
By offering centre-stage to the military-fatigues-wearing Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the EPC underscores Europe’s solidarity with the country at war.
EPC summits allow for regular coordination on urgent and longer-term civilian and military support.
A strategic roundtable
In the diplomatic landscape, the European Political Community stands out for being steered by national leaders and for existing at summit level only.
This feature lends the EPC a level of authority, legitimacy and influence that is crucial for any strategic debate.
No existing institution has the mandate, the membership or the means to launch and structure fully integrated Europe-wide responses.
A European General Assembly
The informality of discussions, the number of bi-, tri- and mini-lateral meetings occurring in the margins of each summit, whether choreographed or spontaneous, and the high number of leaders who can literally bump into each other, mean that the EPC looks like a smaller European version of the United Nations General Assembly week.
In the same way, the EPC offers a conducive, neutral space for political dialogue between the continent’s quarrelling and warring neighbours.
A political forum
This opportunity is especially cherished by leaders from non-EU states, who do not engage with their peers on a regular basis and have fewer occasions for substantial face-to-face exchanges.
The EU candidates among them also appreciate the EPC’s spirit of equality, in which they are not treated as ‘pupils’ expected to show progress on their accession homework.
The way ahead
These hard facts will soon force Europeans to take stock of a new post-Helsinki – or even post-Atlantic – geopolitical order and shape an overarching European security architecture.
There is currently no better forum in which to initiate this conversation among the states of Europe than the European Political Community.
Currently there is no pan-European crisis mechanism. The European Political Community could play this role.
Jean-Guy Giraud
14 - 10 - 2025
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