The French non to the European Union constitution on 29 May is still reverberating across Europe, probably to be followed by a Dutch nee on 1 June – tipping the European
As policy-makers worry about how to develop their security, foreign and development strategies in the face of the war on terror, the intricate political realities of a particular country or
We are now in the final lap of the Convention on the Future of Europe, with a compromise on the crucial institutional questions only due to be tabled one week
As France continues to push for a peaceful solution to the Iraq crisis, most of the US media and large sections of the British media are engaged in a ferocious
Europes constitutional convention should by now be halfway through its job of redesigning and reinventing the European Union (EU). But amidst the ever-growing mountains of paper and reports, is
The real risk is that democracy is going to get short shrift both in the European Union (EU) Convention and in the 2004 Intergovernmental Conference (IGC). This, of course, is
Since 11 September, and especially since the perceived success in Afghanistan, the US and European worldviews are again diverging sharply.
Before 11 September, the US emphasis was on Missile Defence,
With their Laeken Declaration, Europes leaders have launched a sweepingly ambitious reform process. The Union, they declare, stands at a crossroads, a defining moment in its existence. But what
The European response so far to the terrorist attacks on the US has been one of strongly expressed solidarity. But the global crisis provoked by the attacks on America, poses
