“Britain and the EU need a new relationship on foreign policy. It doesn’t have to be a romance. It should be a reboot.”
Former UK Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs David Miliband last night delivered the 2024 Henry Grattan Lecture at the Embassy of Ireland in London, ‘In It Together: Europe (including the UK) in a Multi-Aligned World’.
Irish Ambassador Martin Fraser and Mrs Deirdre Fraser welcomed Trinity alumni and members of the London Irish community, as well as diplomats, politicians, and journalists, to the Embassy in London for the event.
In his address, Mr Miliband noted that our current moment feels like an inflection point in history for several key reasons, including the current technological revolution that is having a seismic impact on the global economic and the global military and political power balance. He further noted that while globalisation has tied the world more closely together, this has also led to an increase in shared risks; and that all this has happened as the global political order based on American power has fragmented.