The present type of EU summit with international actors ought to change, otherwise we will be perpetuating a type of encounter that is closer to circus than to diplomacy, and where it is hard to tell who are the lions and who are the tamers
Does it really matter whether Catherine Ashton’s travel plans include Haiti, Gaza or an erupting Icelandic volcano? There must be more insightful analysis, and less idle gossip, in press coverage of EU attempts to forge a common foreign policy
Europe has to make up its mind: it’s either tomatoes or immigrants
Lisbon Treaty, Von Rompuy, Ashton, External Action Service: what does it all mean for Europe?
For a middleweight country like Spain, the most successful means of exerting influence on the world stage is to exert influence in the EU
Interview with Jos? Ignacio Torreblanca on what to expect from the Spanish EU Presidency in times of economic crisis and institutional innovation
The European Union will start 2010 under von Rompuy and Ashton. This duo is supposed to provide the Union with a single voice in the wider world. Will it?
We have to find a way to end our internal divisions and restore our leadership
The Afghan experience will leave Europe?s armed forces drained and in search of a new purpose. Insufficient political will and empty state coffers will hamper rejuvenation
European solidarity is though but necessary ? especially in today?s economic, political and security climate