The Yerevan Spectacle: When European Diplomacy Mistakes Symbolism for Strategy A Critical Assessment of the 8th European Political Community Summit
May 5, 2026
The eighth meeting of the European Political Community (EPC), convening today in Yerevan, Armenia, offers an instructive case study in how multilateral institutions can conflate geopolitical theatre with genuine strategic purpose — at considerable, largely unquantified cost to European taxpayers and, ultimately, to European credibility. I. Origins and Original Sin Created in