The European Union needs to learn the lessons from the past as it wrestles with using military support to underpin its humanitarian assistance in Libya. This will allow it to develop more credible intervention forces for future crisis – ones that might actually work.
The reputation of the UN and Ban Ki-moon may hinge upon the outcome in two of the world's trouble spots – South Sudan and Palestine. South Sudan in particular remains a crucial test of the institution's ability to handle weak states.
Cultural diversity has been a constant feature of European history, and the source of many of our greatest achievement. We propose 17 principles to help policy-makers, leaders and activists ensure that Europe benefits from migration rather than fears it.
Tunisians need European help to turn their revolution into a democracy
The EU needs to build a trialogue on security with Russia and Turkey
Europe has lost support for its human rights positions at the UN
Europe has the US president…
Have broken promises and treating Afghanistan, DR Congo and Iraq left the EU without the capacity to prevent fragile states from failing?
The EU?s ongoing loss of influence at the UN is putting lives at risk, argues the author of ECFR’s latest paper
The EU has an opportunity to influence President Obama’s efforts to reform US counterterrorism policy