Darío Valcárcel
Director of Política Exterior, an international affairs review, Darío Valcárcel was one of the founding members of El País, of which he was deputy director. He writes a column on international politics for Spanish daily ABC.
Updated: 26 June 2009
No more talk: Europe must act now to relieve famine in the Horn of Africa. It can start by helping to restore order in a country racked by decades of civil war. 
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.