Making matters worse, the geopolitical environment has changed fundamentally in the decade since the ESS was ratified, owing to economic rebalancing toward Asia, the upheavals in the Arab world, the revival of Russian assertiveness, and the rise of isolationist tendencies in the US. As a result, the ESS does not capture the reality of today’s world – a fact that is obvious from its opening declaration that “Europe has never been so prosperous.”
更加糟糕的是，自ESS起草以来，由于经济向亚洲倾斜、阿拉伯世界动荡、俄罗斯重振雄风以及美国日渐倒向孤立主义等因素，地缘政治环境发生了根本性变化。因此，ESS已不适应当前世界的现实，这从它的开宗明义——“欧洲从未如此繁荣”中便可见一斑。