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‘Outie’ or ‘Innie’? The EU belly button

Apparently David Miliband was felt today by the ‘hand of history’, when delivering a speech to the College of Europe in Bruges. You would have thought that hand belonged to Baroness Thatcher given her...

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Political Games

The EU’s leg of the Olympic relay race has begun and a couple of mistimed exchanges when passing the baton (buck) of foreign policy has already left it without a hope of winning gold, writes Claire...

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If you cannot convince them, confuse them

Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France and current holder of the EU Presidency, is finally in the press for the right reasons. He was credited with ‘brokering’ a ceasefire between Russia and Georgia last...

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Dictators and Democracy

Last week’s EU blog considered the limitations of the EU’s European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) in light of the recent Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions. As events in North Africa have continued to...

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Taking the EEAS for a spin…

It has recently emerged that the EU’s foreign policy arm is to get a PR facelift. Catherine Ashton, the designated architect and builder of the EU’s External Action Service (EEAS), is to use £8.5...

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Will David Cameron ditch his foreign aid commitment?

The more often you promise something, the more difficult it is to go back on it. So it was with David Cameron’s guarantee to protect universal pensioner benefits, one of those commitments by the...

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