Barely five months into 2021, the year keeps precipitating the European Union into ever more foreign policy conundrums. Notwithstanding the “Covid nationalism” denounced elsewhere, the Commission’s vaccine debacles continue to delay the wished-for humanitarian victory lap when much of the Third World would reach immunisation through EU-supplied jabs. Earlier on in the pandemic, the cutthroat race for medical supplies elevated “strategic autonomy” over and above the single market orthodoxies of old and Germany’s geo strategic penchant for managed neutrality. The buzzword has since been used as cover for a series of miscalculations wholly at odds with the principles outlined by Emmanuel Macron, its chief cheerleader. The European Parliament resolution from late April condemning Russia’s military buildup along Ukraine, its involvement in the 2014 blast of a Czech munition depot, and its treatment of Alexei Navalny is a welcome course correction to the appeasement signaled by Josep Borrell...