Timothy Garton Ash looks at how the EU has appeared divided in both Gaza and the gas crisis.

Andrew Wilson offers solutions on the Ukrainian front to prevent a gas crisis next year.

With EU enlargement no more on offer, the EU?s neighbourhood policy faces increasing difficulties.

How are the EU's Eastern neighbours different from "accession neighbours"?

Pakistan, Congo and Ukraine are three fault lines separating us from the future.

The solution to the Russian gas challenge lies not in foreign energy policy but in reform of the European gas market itself.

When Barack Obama enters the White House as president in January 2009, what will change for the Balkans?

All being well with Europe, the Treaty of Lisbon would now have been ready to come into force on 1 January. But all is not well.

With a new US president, what are the prospects for a more united trans-Atlantic position on how to deal with a resurgent Russia and the ?neighbourhood? states in between?

As the dust of the August war in Georgia begins to settle, the EU is emerging as the nearest thing around to a winner. An article published in E-Sharp!.

The EU has eased its visa ban on Belarusian officials. Was this the right move? How far can Belarus, once notorious as the ?last dictatorship in Europe?, really change?

Like Greece and Macedonia itself, the EU is too willing to accept Macedonia?s state of limbo.

The EU's Georgia mission is looking like a much-needed, if small ESDP success. But there is still much the EU can learn from its deployment.

Russia?s NATO and EU ambassadors push Moscow?s ?spheres of influence? into the EU starting with ?age-old ally? Bulgaria.

Ukraine has lost another government. Tymoshenko has lasted only 8 months as Prime Minister, only a few weeks longer than her first attempt in 2005.