The content originally appeared on: CNN (CNN)In 2022, the European Union must confront some of the most difficult challenges it faces if it is ever to become the geopolitical power its leaders so desperately want it to be. The Covid-19 pandemic has left efforts to create a more assertive global Europe on the backburner - at the very moment when the global politics of the past two years has created myriad problems for the bloc. These will only get worse […]