How will be the European Union in 2020 or 2030? In a changing world which tends towards greater plurality of centres of power, the growing power of groups of countries to the detriment of the sovereign state, European citizens will need the global solutions of the EU. There will be more Europe and more people will be identified with the European Union. To the outside world, the EU has to remain committed to "soft power", and the European External Action Service should serve to ensure coherence and effectiveness of EU foreign policy.
