We are amidst the greatest security crisis in Europe since the Cuban Missile crisis in 1962. Of I/Os, the UN and CoE have been utterly irrelevant, a feeble attempt was made with the OSCE, and the EU's main contribution has been to whine about being ignored by Russia, US & NATO.
In the future we need a rethink of which legacy I/Os are fit for purpose. The UN for development assistance and refugees, fine. Security? Hardly, especially with an octagenarian SC legacy P5. CoE long ago lost any legitimacy as a normative human rights org by re-instating Russia.
I remain hopeful for the EU if it learns from its irrelevancy in this security crisis. It should start by 1) not whining, 2) planning now for a potential flood of millions of Ukrainian refugees all of whom have visa free travel to the EU. This is possible now without any reforms.
But the EU has to get serious of security. Its expressions of shades of concern are an embarrassing joke, its inability even to get sanctions done beyond the lowest common denominator of least nationally harmful targets is pathetic. If we see national cutouts in case of...