Leading without Chairing: Spain?s EU Presidency under the Lisbon Treaty
For a middleweight country like Spain, the most successful means of exerting influence on the world stage is to exert influence in the EU
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Getting out of the Afghan quagmire
It is time for the West to stop dreaming and adopt more pragmatic goals in Afghanistan
Boxing clever
Catherine Ashton appears to be an out-fighter
ECFR named ?Best new think tank in the last 5 years? for the second year running
For the second year running, the most comprehensive ranking of the world?s leading think-tanks has named ECFR the ?Best new think tank in the last 5 years?
Ukraine decides: Part Six
The dust has settled on the first round of voting in the Ukrainian presidential elections. Andrew Wilson tries to make sense of the results
The EU is helping Haiti
Sometimes crises are just that ? crises, not an excuse to grandstand or promote bureaucratic growth. On that basis, the EU is handling the Haiti crisis well
Zapatero, stay cool. And if necessary, be boring.
Interview with Jos? Ignacio Torreblanca on what to expect from the Spanish EU Presidency in times of economic crisis and institutional innovation
The European grill
Every EU presidency faces unexpected crises; now Hait? is rapidly becoming the crisis that tests both the Spanish rotating presidency and the EU’s capacity for coordinating foreign policy action
Ukraine decides: Part Five
The first results are coming in after Ukraine’s presidential elections on Sunday. Andrew Wilson looks at what these first figures mean
Ukraine decides: Part Four
On Sunday 17 January Ukraine held its first presidential elections since the 2004 Orange Revolution. In the third installment of his blog, Andrew Wilson gives his immediate reaction to the day of voting