
By Maria Demertzis
Mark Carney’s call for an age of middle powers in the World Economic Forum this year has left European capitals in an awkward place. For Canada, the label makes sense. But for the European Union, this creates confusion, if not awkwardness. France, Germany or Italy may each fall into the category of middle powers, but the EU surely has the weight of a great power. Yet it still behaves like a coalition of anxious medium-sized states, in which the whole ends up






