Andreas Kluth, Columnist

For the EU to Survive, It Can’t Keep Failing

If the bloc is to remain a union, it has to stop floundering over vaccines, Russia and everything else.

March 4, 2021 at 5:00 AM UTC

Andreas Kluth is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering US diplomacy, national security and geopolitics. Previously, he was editor-in-chief of Handelsblatt Global and a writer for the Economist.

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On March 4, two European leaders will touch down in Israel for a visit that should worry Europhiles and delight Euroskeptics.

Neither Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz nor Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen would state it so openly, but both are losing faith in the European Union’s ability to vaccinate the bloc’s people fast enough. So they’re talking to Benjamin Netanyahu, prime minister of Israel (which leads the world in vaccinations), about ventures that could, in a pinch, get jabs into Austrian and Danish shoulders.