Alexander Stubb Outlines Ways to Strengthen EUbr Carnegie Endowment for International Peace - Carnegie Endowment for International Peacebr The Finnish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Alexander Stubb, discusses the prospects and challenges of the EU becoming a superpower in the international arena.While the EU is the largest political union, single market, and aid donor in the world, it is not a superpower in the defense or foreign policy spheres.Factors constraining the EU's rise to superpower status include its lack of statehood in the international system, a lack of internal drive to project power worldwide, and nostalgia for the nation-state amongst some Europeans.To become an actual superpower in the coming years, Mr.