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France and UK hold up EU accession to the European Convention on Human Rights. France and the United Kingdom are blocking a deal on the European Union's accession to the...

A book that explores failures in EU foreign policy and suggests how it can rectify the situation. Since its inception in the early 1990s, the European Union's Common Foreign...

The difficulties faced by the EU's diplomatic service in its first year are symptoms of bigger problems. You wrote that Catherine Ashton, the EU's foreign policy chief, is...

Catherine Ashton and her colleagues need to show more understanding of how essential development is to security. Last week you reported on the storm of criticism facing the...

There is much to praise in the EU institutions' response to the Arab uprisings, but directionis still lacking. In the past year, democratic uprisings in the southern...

The European External Action Service has had a difficult first 12 months, and hopes have faded that Catherine Ashton will settle into her role as EU foreign policy chief. The...

What have Van Rompuy and Ashton achieved since taking office? This weekend will see the second anniversary of the European Council's decision on 19 November 2009 to appoint...

Why Poland has called a special conference to discuss the EU's long-term budget. Defining the multiannual financial framework of the European Union (MFF) means defining the...

Giovanni Grevi tells Toby Vogel how things have developed in the world of foreign affairs think-tanks. Last autumn, Giovanni Grevi returned to Brussels – after five years...

The EU's greater foreign-policy ambitions are being reflected in EU studies courses. Next week (25-26 October), the College of Europe will host a conference on challenges...

Is the European Commission doing enough to protect a favourite EU concept: solidarity? The term “solidarity” is hard to avoid just at the moment. The European Parliament...

A way to instil esprit de corps in the unique hybrid that is the European External Action Service. The European External Action Service (EEAS) is commonly described as the...

The EU's record of resolving conflicts has a big blot, Cyprus. Over the years, in the absence of a common foreign and security policy worthy of the name, the European Union...

Germany's foreign minister rebuffs Belgian critique of the EU's foreign policy chief. Guido Westerwelle, Germany's foreign minister, has expressed strong support for...

Parliament to discuss defence and security, while MEPs argue that Better co-operation is ‘a necessity'. MEPs are expected to issue a call for an EU seat on the United...

It's the end of the Western European Union - or is it? European organisations have a tendency to proliferate, so the dissolution of the parliamentary assembly of the Western...

It is too early to write obituaries for European foreign policy. Has Muammar Qaddafi killed Europe's hopes of a common foreign policy? That question – allegedly posed by...

Catherine Ashton, the EU's foreign policy chief, is coming under attack from all sides, and that creates a problem not just for her, but for the office of the high...

First visit of EU foreign policy chief since military takeover. Catherine Ashton, the EU's foreign policy chief, is to travel to Egypt next Monday (21 February) for talks...

The launch of the European External Action Service has been delayed, shoddy and inconsistent. For the European Union, the New Year has begun with foreign policy issues...