Europe in 2025 is walking a tightrope: It is the site of a major conflict between Russia and Ukraine, it is juggling its own autonomy while maintaining its special relationship with the power that is the United States, and it is working out how to ride the AI wave while keeping the technology in check.

Leaders of Europe have tough choices ahead warned Croatia’s former president, Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, on stage at Fortune Global Forum in Riyadh this weekend. Their decisions during this “inflection point,” she said, will determine whether the region sinks or swims.

“This is the moment of taking existential choices that are ahead of us,” Grabar-Kitarović said. Those choices “will determine whether Europe will continue and build itself as a global player or it will become a geopolitical p

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