With this timid choice of leaders, the EU may have the faces it deserves
The holders of the new top jobs can perfectly represent a Europe that does not dare to project its values as a continent
Commentary
When bad news goes unnoticed
With the rest of Europe preoccupied with the van Rompuy and Ashton appointments, the French Europe Minister, Pierre Lellouche, picked the best time to announce some bad news: there will no joint Franco-German minister
Van Rompuy is the right man for the job
Belgian leadership consists of bringing consensus to a fractious coalition, exactly what the president of the EU has to do
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
After all the horse-trading, the final two
The names Hermann van Rompuy and Cathy Asthon have baffled Europeans today. But they may prove to be exactly the type of names Europe needs at its top.
Europe’s new leaders
Stop the traffic, they won?t, but Van Rompuy and Ashton will do better: they will build a traffic system
Obama in Asia
Despite dissimilarities between them, a G2 of China and the US haunts Europe
Diplosaurs
Europe’s Foreign Ministers must do all they can to help the new High Representative if the EU is to enjoy a fully functional foreign policy
A new world of diplomacy
We need diplomats to liaise with cities and regions