ECFR Council

Memo to President Ahmadinejad

  • Daniel Korski
  • Commentary

Iran looks set to defy President Obama?s offer of engagement and the international community ?- including the EU -? will have to decide how to react. But what is Tehran thinking?

The EU and China: Talking past each other

  • François Godement
  • Commentary

Did anybody notice the recent EU-China summit that took place at the end of November in Nanjing? No? The summit only lasted an hour and forty-five minutes

Strong enough for a ‘reset’ with Russia? Obama and Moscow

  • Ivan Krastev
  • Commentary

The success of President Obama's “reset” policy with Russia will depend not only on getting U.S. actions toward Moscow right but also on getting insight into the way the Kremlin views the United States and its new president

After Lisbon: Is Europe becoming a global power?

  • Ulrike Guérot
  • Commentary

The European Union will start 2010 under von Rompuy and Ashton. This duo is supposed to provide the Union with a single voice in the wider world. Will it?

Europe must rediscover its power

  • Mark Leonard
  • Commentary

The EU needs to take a good look at its relations and position in the world ? Lady Ashton is well placed to integrate its strengths

Time to rally the European troops, General Ashton

  • Daniel Korski
  • Commentary

Baroness Ashton may be judged on how well she dons a general’s beret. In building Europe’s military capabilities, there is fortunately both much to rectify and build on

When bad news goes unnoticed

  • Ulrike Guérot
  • Commentary

With the rest of Europe preoccupied with the van Rompuy and Ashton appointments, the French Europe Minister, Pierre Lellouche, picked the best time to announce some bad news: there will no joint Franco-German minister

After all the horse-trading, the final two

  • Ulrike Guérot
  • Commentary

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