ECFR

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?

La eficacia del diablo

The EU was “diabolically efficient” in picking Rompuy and Ashtong to preserve the power of national capitals

Europe’s new leaders

Stop the traffic, they won?t, but Van Rompuy and Ashton will do better: they will build a traffic system

How Europe can be heard in Washington

Europeans must steel themselves to discuss, within the EU, the big issues on which Europe must engage the US

Get a grip

To avoid creeping irrelevance, Europe must find a collective voice on the international stage

Besser wird’s nicht

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 But it was the best available deal under the outdated and foolish unanimity rule.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.

Cold feet in a Turkish bath

Nobody wants to admit it, but Turkish accession negotiations are dead in the water