Last Monday, the supervisory board of the new think tank Brussels Institute for Geopolitics (BIG) met for the first time. The think tank has set itself the goal of promoting geopolitical thinking in the EU. „To be successful in this new age of conflict, Europe must learn to think and act in terms of power, interests and strategy„, reads the BIG’s mission statement. It continues: „To maintain its democratic openness internally, Europe must strengthen its external stance by practicing Kant internally and Machiavelli externally.“