Rethinking the EU’s actorness in the Red Sea

A more proactive security approach is necessary for the EU to protect international maritime trade and its own commercial interests in the long term.
Francesco Dimitrios Foti is a policy and security analyst/researcher. Graduated from the University of Westminster (MA) and Catania (BA), he mainly focuses on EU-Russia relations, the post-Soviet space (South-Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and the South Caucasus) paths to Euro-Atlantic integration/cooperation, hybrid warfare, and extremism and terrorism in Europe.

A more proactive security approach is necessary for the EU to protect international maritime trade and its own commercial interests in the long term.