After all the horse-trading, the final two
The names Hermann van Rompuy and Cathy Asthon have baffled Europeans today. But they may prove to be exactly the type of names Europe needs at its top.
Articles
Europe’s new leaders
Stop the traffic, they won?t, but Van Rompuy and Ashton will do better: they will build a traffic system
Obama in Asia
Despite dissimilarities between them, a G2 of China and the US haunts Europe
Diplosaurs
Europe’s Foreign Ministers must do all they can to help the new High Representative if the EU is to enjoy a fully functional foreign policy
A new world of diplomacy
We need diplomats to liaise with cities and regions
How Europe can be heard in Washington
Europeans must steel themselves to discuss, within the EU, the big issues on which Europe must engage the US
Welt ohne F?hrung
Obama’s China-Visit was more than an episode: it symbolises the end of a long era of global US leadership. The power vacuum will have to be filled by stronger global institutions. A piece in German.
Three ways to change the course of Europe
We are still far from achieving Europe’s security and defence objectives. A piece in both English and Italian.
ECFR’s transatlantic report – interesting, but I have a few critical remarks
ECFR council member and former Austrian Secretary General for Foreign Affairs makes some critical remarks about our transatlantic report
Germany and Europe: 1989, 2009…2029
Twenty years on, the chessboard is shaking once again