Theme park Europe
Few outside Europe, from the CIA to world public opinion, believe that the EU will be a relevant world actor in 2025
Commentary
How MEPs can help save the UN Human Rights Council
A European Parliament debate on the EU?s role on the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) comes at an embarrassing moment
It’s Tibet, not the economy, stupid
China?s cancellation of the planned bilateral summit with the EU is a brutal and unprecedented warning of how little Europe means to China
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?
Three fault lines
Pakistan, Congo and Ukraine are three fault lines separating us from the future
Exiting Africa?
The Congo crisis demonstrated the UN’s limitations, but its longest-lasting effect may be to mark the end of European military interventions in Africa
The EU and Russia’s gas
The solution to the Russian gas challenge lies not in foreign energy policy but in reform of the European gas market itself
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?