Europe?s future foreign policy at risk
Before Catherine Ashton can become an effective actor on the global stage, the European Union’s new foreign policy chief needs to have in place the diplomatic service, ordained by the Lisbon treaty
Experts & Staff
Andrew Duff
All eyes on ?triple-hatted? Ashton
Nobody ever said that running the EU was going to be easy. Ms Ashton’s job is clearly complex and difficult
Klaus can?t sink the Lisbon treaty
Now it’s only Vaclas Klaus who holds out against Lisbon
What an Irish No would mean for Europe
A second rejection of the Lisbon Treaty would shunt Europe into a constitutional impasse
Why Europe?s parliament deserves a vote of confidence
Andrew Duff discusses why European institutions and member states need to respect the European Parliament
Why Britain needs the euro
Andrew Duff explains why the time has come for Britain to decide to join the euro
Czechs must guide the EU through choppy waters
The purgatory between two Treaties will be a difficult time for the EU. Andrew Duff MEP explains what the Czechs, who have yet to ratify the Lisbon Treaty, face at the start of their EU Presidency
Czechs raise the stakes on Lisbon
All being well with Europe, the Treaty of Lisbon would now have been ready to come into force on 1 January. But all is not well
Rescuing the Lisbon treaty
An article by Andrew Duff, Member of the European Parliament and ECFR Council Member, on the attempt to rescue the Lisbon treaty
Summer of discontent
The EU will have to justify its own claims that bipolar ?spheres of influence? in Europe are consigned to history by taking affirmative action in the Black Sea and Caucasus region
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Europe?s future foreign policy at risk
Before Catherine Ashton can become an effective actor on the global stage, the European Union’s new foreign policy chief needs to have in place the diplomatic service, ordained by the Lisbon treaty
All eyes on ?triple-hatted? Ashton
Nobody ever said that running the EU was going to be easy. Ms Ashton’s job is clearly complex and difficult
Klaus can?t sink the Lisbon treaty
Now it’s only Vaclas Klaus who holds out against Lisbon
What an Irish No would mean for Europe
A second rejection of the Lisbon Treaty would shunt Europe into a constitutional impasse
Why Europe?s parliament deserves a vote of confidence
Andrew Duff discusses why European institutions and member states need to respect the European Parliament
Why Britain needs the euro
Andrew Duff explains why the time has come for Britain to decide to join the euro
Czechs must guide the EU through choppy waters
The purgatory between two Treaties will be a difficult time for the EU. Andrew Duff MEP explains what the Czechs, who have yet to ratify the Lisbon Treaty, face at the start of their EU Presidency
Czechs raise the stakes on Lisbon
All being well with Europe, the Treaty of Lisbon would now have been ready to come into force on 1 January. But all is not well
Rescuing the Lisbon treaty
An article by Andrew Duff, Member of the European Parliament and ECFR Council Member, on the attempt to rescue the Lisbon treaty
Summer of discontent
The EU will have to justify its own claims that bipolar ?spheres of influence? in Europe are consigned to history by taking affirmative action in the Black Sea and Caucasus region