Charles Michel chose big words: He was convinced, the Council President said during his Europe speech in Berlin, that the EU could become „the great power of peace of the 21st century„. However, this power is notoriously difficult in dealing with less peaceful neighbors such as the Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko. Michel himself is spontaneously traveling to Poland on Wednesday to discuss solutions to the refugee drama on the border with Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki. „Polish and Baltic borders are European borders,“ he stressed.