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Ukraine\u2019s resilience and the renewed sense of purpose in the liberal West<\/strong><\/p>\n With a winter milder than usual and almost over, a new sense of unity and confidence is visible these days in what Putin and his propagandists call \u201cthe collective West\u201d. There is a relative stabilization on the energy markets after a very turbulent 2022, while the Ukrainians continue to fight heroically against the Russian aggression, marking one year of resistance this week to what was supposed to be \u2013 for Kremlin \u2013 a three day victorious campaign. On the broader scale, the liberal world seems to have found its pace and direction, setting itself for the long run on a new trend of re-globalization<\/a>: cooperation and interdependence, not national autarchy, but with an increased emphasis on political values (democracy and human rights) and the security dimension (friend-shoring).<\/p>\n Energy: what did we learn in the EU from the past year of war?<\/strong><\/p>\n Russia\u2019s full scale invasion in Ukraine put under the spotlight the interdependencies between the global security and energy, as well as the extent to which the Kremlin has become a threat not just to its immediate neighborhood, but to the entire West. As the past year\u2019s experience shows, the collective West is weak when disunited, fearful and hesitant \u2013 but invincible when principled and coherent.<\/p>\n