The last mandate saw more than 660 initiatives from the EU executive and unprecedented responses to the Covid-19 pandemic, an energy crisis and even a war on its borders. The EU proved that despite its complex governance, where there is political will, there is a way – and so the bloc found the tools and mechanisms to jointly buy vaccines and provide Ukraine with all the financial, military and human aid it could. But the picture for the next five years will require management of the green and digital transitions – rather than lots of legislation – and what worked in the past may not work in t…