Reflecting for action
What will Europe’s leaders do with the reflection group’s report, which aims to be straight talking, concise and legible, when Felipe Gonz?lez delivers next year?
What will Europe’s leaders do with the reflection group’s report, which aims to be straight talking, concise and legible, when Felipe Gonz?lez delivers next year?
The EU was “diabolically efficient” in picking Rompuy and Ashtong to preserve the power of national capitals
Stop the traffic, they won?t, but Van Rompuy and Ashton will do better: they will build a traffic system
Europeans must steel themselves to discuss, within the EU, the big issues on which Europe must engage the US
ECFR council member and former Austrian Secretary General for Foreign Affairs makes some critical remarks about our transatlantic report
A piece published in Corriere della Sera on our transatlantic report. In Italian.
To avoid creeping irrelevance, Europe must find a collective voice on the international stage
The Lisbon Treaty makes the EU neither efficient nor democratic enough. But it was the best available deal under the outdated and foolish unanimity rule. A piece in German.
Nobody wants to admit it, but Turkish accession negotiations are dead in the water
The much-awaited Lisbon Treaty is now finally in place. But will it make any difference?