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Glory to Ukraine; Radek Sikorski for High Representative!

... context than she did in her phone conversation, tapped and leaked by the Russian secret service. What the EU still needs, now more evidently than ever, is a strong High Representative to forge, not just manage, the EU’s common foreign policy. The European Union needs a new face as its foreign policy chief. It needs to be someone with a vision and strategic thinking; someone whose allegiance to European ideals is unquestionable but who is a realist and not ashamed, or worse, afraid of geopolitics....

25.02.2014

No cigar: on Kosovo’s new deal, Catherine Ashton and the “single voice”

... prestige on this agreement, worked on it for a year, and she won. Yet the two leaders are speculated to be possible Nobel Peace Prize candidates, not Lady Ashton. Because, while her efforts deserve acclaim, we must not forget about her leverage: the European Union, already a Peace Prize laureate. Given the two countries’ socio-economic difficulties, Mrs Ashton’s greatest lure was evidently the prospect of EU membership. Moralising about the lessons learnt in the New York Times, Lady ...

16.05.2013
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