If the European Union is to be ready to share in the responsibility for global security and building a better world, as the European Security Strategy states, it is evident […]
On 16 March 2010, foreign ministers from a number of Saharan and Sahel countries—Algeria, Burkina Faso, Chad, Libya, Mali, Mauritania and Niger—met in Algeria to discuss the evolving threat of […]
On the EU’s strategic partnerships, their meaning and purposes. This commentary was published ahead of the 2010 European Council that addressed this issue. It was published simultaneously in French under […]
in De Morgen, 15 Sept. 2010. (Photo credit: Pixabay)
Afghan opiates kill 100,000 people a year globally. Every year NATO countries lose over 10,000 people to heroin overdoses. In Russia an estimated 30,000 to 40,000 people die of drug […]
Neither a Machiavelli or a Bismarck has yet emerged from Brussels but it is time for the EU to start thinking about being a power on the world stage. A […]