How Europe can respond to Obama
How will we react when Barack Obama asks us to put our unity, soldiers, money and resolve where our mouths have been?
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The death of NATO
Now in its 60th year, NATO no longer provides a healthy basis for the trans-Atlantic security relationship
Europe must act as one on the world stage
Instead of talking in the abstract about a single EU voice, Europeans should forge pragmatic arrangements to simplify and make more effective their external representation
Commander Obama
Undoing Bush’s foreign policy legacy will be a huge challenge for Obama. But what can Europe do to help?
Destination Washington
The G-20 Summit this week-end in Washington offers a good opportunity to reflect on what Europe wants to achieve, both internally and externally
What now?
Once he enters office, President Obama will bring a profound challenge to the comfortable introversion of many EU governments
US elections – Up to the occasion
If the Obama phenomenon is confirmed in the public vote on 4 November, the repercussions in US foreign policy will be huge
The EU is not an island that can ignore the plight of Iceland
EU member states have dented the Union?s guiding principle of solidarity by not acting collectively to help Iceland
What future for the Lisbon Treaty?
Though it might be tempting to kick the Lisbon Treaty into the long grass, today’s European Council should rescue the treaty’s CSFP aspects
Rescuing the Lisbon treaty
An article by Andrew Duff, Member of the European Parliament and ECFR Council Member, on the attempt to rescue the Lisbon treaty