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Ashton calls for the EU’s soft power to be smart power too Already on the hot seat little more than a month into the job, the European Union’s new de facto Foreign Minister said she believes the EU can’t rely on its vaunted “soft power” strategy of EU’s new foreign minister says experience isn’t everything  Taking over from the world-traveled professional diplomat Javier Solana as the European Union’s Foreign Minister – a title he didn’t hold – put Catherine Ashton in the hot seat before the European Parliament, which must Eight years in the making, EU treaty now law of the land  It started in 2001 and stopped and started and stopped and started again, but the idea of a kind of European Union Constitution, albeit a watered-down document designed to avoid facing voters in some countries, Who speaks for Europe?  It’s been nearly four decades since then US secretary of state Henry Kissinger supposedly asked in frustration: “Who do I call when I want to speak to Europe?” Kissinger wanted a Europe with clout and On Baroness Ashton's new role  The announcement of Baroness Cathy Ashton as the EU's first High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission marks a sea-change in how Europe will be perceived across the globe. NATO won’t stay in Afghanistan forever, UK looks for the exit  Even as NATO’s new Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the commitment to the war against terrorism in Afghanistan by the alliance and Europe is strong, he said its troops will one day be pulled That phony fraud Karzai Is not worth dying for During the Vietnam War era, a decorated veteran named John Kerry appeared before a Congressional committee to denounce what he had been fighting for, realizing it was a folly propped up by politicians in a Solana says Palestinian state should follow 1967 lines  It was is sure to be a contentious idea that could rile Israel, European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana said that the future Palestinian state should be established along the 1967 borders, following the EU military chief wants closer ties in Southeast Asia The European Union is interested in boosting cooperation with South-East Asia in fighting piracy in the Malacca Straits, disaster relief and peacekeeping missions, the EU chief representative for military affairs said in Bangkok on his Solanas Ukraine statement raises Kiev questions THE statement made by EU High Representative Javier Solana on Ukraine during his speech at Harvard University Kennedy School in New York more than a week ago has raised questions and even anger in Kiev. Israeli minister wants Spanish involved in Mideast talks  As Spain prepares to take over the rotating presidency of the European Union on January 1, its healthy relations with both Israel and the Arab world put it in an excellent position to help promote EU helps broker Iran okay on nuclear inspections deal  With the European Union’s chief diplomat helping lead the way, a stubborn Iranian government has agreed to international inspections of a mysterious nuclear facility and said it would continue talks about its nuclear program with EU condemns Guinea bloodbath, and cuts off aid  The European Union has fiercely criticized the killing by police in Guinea of at least 87 opposition demonstrators, calling it “indiscriminate and brutal,” and said the consequences for the government of that African country would Africa’s newest capital: Is Europe ready?  Juba in Southern Sudan is the newest location for Europe to set up a diplomatic outpost. The European Commission opened a delegation there just under a month ago. On September 18, South Africa’s Foreign Minister Solana says Iran talks likely to be held in Turkey  October 1 talks between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany, with Iran’s burgeoning nuclear program center stage, may be scheduled for Turkey, the European Union’s top diplomat said. Belarus, Venezuela eye economic cooperation Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez praised his country’s close relations with Belarus. There is no limit to our integration! Chavez said, at a televised meeting with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. Chavez and a Venezuelan delegation arrived EU will keep on talking nuke talks with Iran  Frustrated by several years of being ignored and having its deadlines for Iran to stop enriching uranium and building a nuclear program, the European Union said it will nonetheless continue to pursue its carrots-and-sticks policy Upset over bombing, EU will boost help for Afghan civilians The West should work with the Afghan people, “not bomb them,” French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said ahead of European Union talks on how to boost the bloc’s civilian help to the war-torn nation. The EU says Israel will soon stop Palestinian settlements  With Mideast peace talks blocked because of Israel’s ongoing building in the occupied Palestinian territories, some hope has emerged for progress after the European Union said it expected Israel to announce a freeze of its Solana says it’s a deal for EU-Syria, end of year An EU-Syrian association agreement will be signed before the end of this year, EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana told reporters at the end of a visit to Damascus. The relationship between the EU and EU’s top diplomat heads to the Middle East The European Union’s foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, plans to tour the Middle East this week as part of international efforts to find a resolution to the Israeli-Arab conflict, officials in Brussels said. Solana, whose EU’s top diplomat heads to the Middle East The European Union’s foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, plans to tour the Middle East this week as part of international efforts to find a resolution to the Israeli-Arab conflict, officials in Brussels said. Solana, whose Israeli settlements in Middle East still vex EU relations, peace  The continued eviction of Palestinians from their lands and ongoing Jewish settlements in those territories has stymied ongoing European Union-Israel talks in trade and hampered political advancement, officials on both sides have said. The rancor NATO and the EU: what a difference a decade makes  Jaap de Hoop Scheffer will soon hand over his responsibilities as NATO Secretary-General (SecGen) to the former Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen. Recently, Javier Solana announced that he would not seek a new mandate Klaus takes on the EU again and its economic policy Czech President Vaclav Klaus, an outspoken critic of the European Union, has slammed the bloc’s leaders as well as its planned policies aimed at preventing future financial crises. In a newspaper interview, Klaus said top Now it’s up to Sweden to solve all the EU’s problems  Following on the heels of the almost do-nothing Eurosceptic Czech Republic, which many analysts said foundered from problem to problem without a clue about how to deal with any of them, the rotating six-month presidency Iranian dissident lures Euro lawmakers to Iran  Speaking after a meeting with Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi, European Parliament President Hans-Gert Poettering declared his readiness to lead a Parliament delegation to Iran. “The international community has a moral obligation not Not exactly a Vision Quest  Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso is in a hurry to secure his reappointment during the European Council June summit and, from his stand point, he is quite right. Indeed he knows, that now, the winds Iran fires missile – with a warning of hell With the United States and European Union closely watching, Iran successfully tested a new surface-to-surface missile that has a range of about 2,000 kilometres, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said, a weapon he said Iran was European Union, Russia summit much ado about nothing  EU and Russia negotiators failed to reach an agreement on an energy pact between the two powers, following a twoday summit on May 21-22 to Khabarovsk in Russia’s Far East. But Czech President Vaclav Klaus, |
It is said that a week is a long time in politics and this week has been as long as The Commission are sometimes accused of making propaganda, especially when engaging with children, but their Speaking to New Europe ahead of his meeting with European Parliament President, Jerzy Buzek, the A GMO hot potato Near-bankrukpt Greece a culture of corruption, $1 billion a year in bribes Mr. Papandreou goes to Washington Suffer Little Children David Cameron and the Rumble in the Jungle There more barriers in Ukraine than in Europe Farage to Belgium: I'm sorry; but he's not apologizing to Van Rompuy Architecture in Europe France tells Serbia to get over it, Kosovo is gone A Penalty For Missing The Millennium Development Goal? Banks can create and destroy -... Banks can create money. This time-cherished truth opened the way to the last credit crisis, which still threatens the world Down with the bankers, loan sharks... Europeans have rightfully blamed greedy American bankers whose blood lust for money caused the worldwide recession that put scores of EU says ok to Greek deficit... After the European Union once again delayed any decision on whether to bail out Greece as the country struggles to Farage To Belgium: "I'm Sorry"... Speaking to New Europe ahead of his meeting with Parliament President, Jerzy Buzek, the unrepentant EFD Leader spoke about being Spanish Presidency plan for electric... Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, whose country holds the rotating European Union presidency, has pledged to present a World unites in Haiti aid effort:... With the whole world watching, as Haiti tries to recover from the 7-richter earthquake that has reportedly killed 50,000, a Although the European Parliament dealt a surprise defeat to an EU-US deal that would have allowed American investigators to look US President Barack Obama on 16 February announced $8 billion worth of loan guarantees to In what is gearing up to be the event of the Defense calendar 2010, UK Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit The Baltic states of Latvia and Lithuania said on 24 February that they remained to be convinced that the sale Russian President Dmitri Medvedev said his country is ready to consider new sanctions against Iran Russia’s justice system is still mired in violence and arbitrariness, despite reforms promised by Kremlin Russian President Dmitry Medvedev marked the halfway point of his four-year term in office on Will China redefine great power politics?
China is presenting its ascent not as a power shift, but as a paradigm shift. The worldwide economic recession has had European Union businesses keenly eyeing China for continuing markets, Showing there is still some major differences between the European Union and China in areas |
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