Europe must seize the opportunity presented by Obama's desire to close Guantanamo.

Twenty years after the massacre in Tiananmen Square, the EU should must help enforce the rule of law in China.

The EU should cooperate more with the UN in peacekeeping missions if it wants to show its ?effective multilateralism? is backed up by muscle.

Obama is redefining the fight against terrorism. But he has come up against some stiff criticism and urgently needs the EU's help.

Now that the fighting in Sri Lanka is over, attention must focus on reconciliation.

The debacle in the UN could be the precursor of more clashes over human rights, with Europe as a target.

The neo-liberal discourse dominant in the last three decades has collapsed. But what is the state of the European Left?

The African Union could lean a lot from the EU if it wants to become a serious union of African states.

Kosovo is a European problem and the EU has the prime responsibility to turn it into a success story.

There is nothing wrong in engaging China rather than antagonizing her: but Europe must coordinate its human rights policy towards Beijing.

Chris Patten argues it is time to question Europe's historic role of financing the failure of policies laid down in Israel and the US.

Democracy promotion itself needs promoters - and, with judicious diplomacy, this year's presidents of the EU could do much to change mindsets and reduce Europe's ambivalence.

Last year's Congo crisis brought home the EU's limitations as a global power. Will it accept them or try to overcome them? Richard Gowan discusses.

Anthony Dworkin calls for a moment of reflection in the light of the anniversary of the human rights declaration.

A European Parliament debate on the EU?s role on the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) comes at an embarrassing moment.