Charlemagne. Out of the limelight

Commentary feature. Europe’s new foreign-policy machinery, the European External Action Service (EEAS)faces its first test in the unrest in North Africa and the Middle East in 2011. Time for its boss, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Catherine Ashton to perform

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PressEurop, 25.3.11: EU foreign policy running on empty http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/editorial/569991-eu-foreign-policy-running-empty

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