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
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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
Europe?s troublesome neighbours
Europe’s southern and eastern border give cause for significant concern. It needs to wake up to where its real security interests lie.
A Bush under the tree
Obama has spent the year picking up the lost balls left behind by Bush, now he’s ready to play again in 2010
Десетилетието на пожарникарите
Firemen, realists and idealists: this century’s global leaders. A piece in Bulgarian.
EU presidency baton goes to Spain
Spain will need to put national interests aside if it is to help give the post-Lisbon Europe real influence on the world stage
World climate authority
We only have one planet. But we are managing it by outdated means: sovereignty was good at controlling feudal lords a couple of hundred years ago. Perhaps it is in the area of the climate change that the supranational EU can be a model for the rest of the world?
The role of think tanks in shaping EU policies
One can hardly imagine a more challenging policy making process than that of the EU. This is what makes the role of think tanks so important.
Toward a stronger European security architecture
A new vision is needed to secure Europe, senior Russian, US and German political figures write
Iron diplomacy
How is it that Spain, a country that has recently known a long dictatorship, is so insensitive to activists for democracy and human rights in other countries?