Catherine Ashton
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Diplomacy: Europe still has no single foreign policy voice
25 April 20136810PresseuropRzeczpospolita -
EU-Serbia: EU accession, but not overnight
23 April 2013652PresseuropDie Presse, EUobserver.com -
Serbia-Kosovo : Everyone’s a winner
22 April 201314115PresseuropDanas, Politika, Blic & 4 others -
Balkans: Playing chicken
18 April 201325 Danas Belgrade -
Kosovo: Reeling them in
21 February 2013151 Danas Belgrade -
EU-Serbia: Eye test
14 January 201353 Danas Belgrade -
EU-Middle East: When Europe had a foreign policy
29 November 201215846 El País Madrid -
International trade: Courting the East
29 November 2012212PresseuropEUobserver.com -
Diplomacy: Let’s shake hands
23 October 201218 Danas Belgrade -
Diplomacy: Don’t be shy
27 September 201220 Danas Belgrade -
EU-Libya: Ashton’s service suspected of favoritism
23 May 2012312PresseuropEUobserver.com, Rue89 -
Israel-EU: Lady Ashton has hit a raw nerve
26 March 20121679 Ha’aretz Tel-Aviv -
Iran: EU favours dialogue with Iran
7 March 2012202PresseuropDie Welt
In Belgrade and Pristina, the press has hailed the agreement on the normalisation of relations between Serbia and its former province, which was concluded on April 19 under the auspices of the EU, as a historic step forward. 
Incapable once again of taking a unified position on a matter of foreign policy, European countries are voting independently on UN non-member state observer status for the Palestinian Territories. Yet there was a time when Europeans claimed to have a key role to play in the peace process. 
The parallel drawn by the EU's foreign affairs chief between the massacre of three Jewish children in Toulouse and Syrian, Israeli and Palestinian war victims has provoked widespread outrage in Israel. But Israel should stop playing the role of eternal victim, argues columnist Gideon Levy.