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EU-Middle East: When Europe had a foreign policy
29 November 201215846 El País Madrid -
INTERVIEW: Jean Ziegler: Brussels is unspeakably hypocritical
25 October 2011PresseuropBlog -
Middle East: Europe stuck in the middle of the road
21 September 2011832 An-Nahar Beirut -
European Union: Why we don't love EU anymore
4 May 2011PresseuropBlog -
Diplomacy: EU to take seat at UN
4 May 20114PresseuropEUobserver.com -
Ivory Coast: Exit Gbagbo, with French nudge
12 April 2011PresseuropLe Figaro -
France: Another French front in Africa
5 April 2011PresseuropLibération -
Kosovo: Hashim Thaçi, the big fish of Pristina
25 January 2011138 The Guardian London -
Morocco / Spain: News blackout lifts in Western Sahara
22 November 2010PresseuropEl Mundo -
Greece | Turkey: Armed EU to keep out migrant flow
26 October 2010136 The Guardian London -
United Nations: Europe's fading voice on human rights
14 October 2010105 The New York Times New York -
Diplomacy: Portugal and Germany take UN seats
13 October 2010PresseuropPúblico -
Diplomacy: UN General Assembly snubs EU
15 September 201015PresseuropLe Soir -
CO2: Emissions impossible?
9 September 201021 European Voice Brussels -
Diplomacy: EU vies for special status at UN
24 August 201024PresseuropRzeczpospolita -
Denmark: Government - no racism here
21 July 20101PresseuropJyllands-Posten -
Belgium-DR Congo: Atrocities report spoils celebrations
17 March 2010PresseuropDe Morgen -
Haiti: A manmade disaster
14 January 2010652 The Guardian London -
Turkey: Learning to get over the EU
19 October 20091 Sabah Istanbul -
United Nations: Why not a permanent seat for the EU?
15 October 20092 La Stampa Turin -
Afghanistan: Germany's good war unravels
7 September 20092 Süddeutsche Zeitung Munich -
Cyprus: Unity hopes suffer another blow
21 July 2009PresseuropO Phileleftheros -
Iran: Not just a physical gulf
26 June 20091 ABC Madrid
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. 
In offering an alternative to the U.S. position on recognition of a Palestinian state, the EU is exposing itself to criticism and pressure from both the Palestinians and the Israelis. 
As the Council of Europe prepares to demand an investigation into the shady underworld dealings of Kosovo PM Hashim Thaçi, secret Nato documents leaked to British daily The Guardian provide more shocking revelations about a prized Western ally. 
The numbers of immigrants seeking passage through the porous Turko-Greek border has quadrupled in the past year. With the Greek government unable to cope, Frontex, Europe’s external borders agency is to deploy armed guards to the region. 
Could Germany and Portugal's election to the U.N. Security Council revive Europe's declining influence in the world? Don't bet on it, argues the New York Times. 
The UN emission trading scheme is coming under fire for its lack of effectiveness, which may also have a negative impact on Europe's so far successful ETS. The European Commission is starting to take action. 
As the international community scrambles to the aid of Haiti after the January 12th earthquake, Peter Hallward in the Guardian points out its complicity in the island’s enduring economic devastation, which leaves hundreds of thousands all too easily exposed to large-scale natural disaster. 
In its annual report on Turkey's membership bid, the EU has encourage Ankara to keep pushing forward with reforms and democratisation. In Turkish daily Sabah, however, columnist Erdal Safak writes that Turkey's future is as much Asian as it is European. 
The new German government no longer wants a permanent seat for Germany on the UN Security Council, but plans to obtain one for the European Union instead. Meanwhile, Italy's former ambassador to the UN, Francesco Paolo Fulci, explains how the EU could exert greater influence on Security Council decisions.
After German-ordered airstrikes on two fuel tankers in northern Afghanistan caused massive civilian casualties, European coalition partners are heaping censure on the Bundeswehr. Premature and risky reproaches, says the Süddeutsche Zeitung, which nonetheless go to show that the war finally has to come to the fore in the upcoming electoral campaign. 
For several years now the EU has sought to negotiate between Tehran and the West. But the Iranian regime’s current crackdown shows the limitations of this soft-diplomacy approach and belies all hope of democratic change in view of the deep divide between political cultures.