EU chooses unknowns for new top jobs
Honor Mahony EU leaders have chosen Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy to be the first president of the European Council, while UK trade commissioner Catherine Ashton will become...
EU Selects New President
Lisa Bryant The European Union has chosen its first full-time president - Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy. Leaders of the 27-member bloc also chose a woman for the...
US Supports BiH, Montenegro for NATO MAP
Antonio Prlenda Seven Southeast European countries' defence ministers and the US Department of Defence met in Sarajevo on Wednesday (November 18th) to discuss further regional co-operation and the NATO...
Europe after the Berlin Wall: 4 Surprises
Moisés Naím The fall of the Berlin Wall was bad news for sovietologists. Thousands of spies, military officers, diplomats, professors, journalists and assorted experts made a living studying the...
Berlin Wall Remembrances Vary
Judith Latham The demise of the Berlin Wall and all it stood for hold different memories for different people. Overt joy was the emotion felt by many in the...
EU military chiefs nervous about Lisbon Treaty implications
Valentina Pop EU military chiefs are nervous that their advice will not carry the same weight once the new Lisbon Treaty is in place and that the planned diplomatic...
Pinpointing the Montenegro-Kosovo border
Marina Roganovic and Besa Beqiri Amid squabbles over the issue, Montenegro and Kosovo are planning formal negotiations to establish a definitive, legally binding border. Officials have tried to stay positive,...
Europe’s Obama Fatigue
James Joyner U.S. President Barack Obama is so beloved in Europe that he was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize (which he later won) just 12 days after taking office for...
Interview: Radoslaw Sikorski
Foreign Policy: Shortly after the Obama administration's reversal on the missile defense system in Central Europe, you were quoted as saying that you hoped this would disabuse Polish leaders of...
2009 EC report: positive outlook for Serbia
Igor Jovanovic Serbia "has done a good and serious job in co-operating with The Hague tribunal and in meeting its obligations regarding the war crimes", according EU Enlargement Commissioner...
What’s in a Name?
Zoran Jolevski Macedonia’s ambassador responds to “The Name Game”. ForeignPolicy.com recently published an inaccurate history (“The Name Game,” July 23, 2009) of Greece's efforts to prevent Macedonia from joining...
Understanding the European Integration through the Ideational Factors:
Kadri Kaan Renda After the end of the Second World War, there was an urgent need to reconstruct Europe, which was ruined by the totalitarian ideologies. There were many...
Critical Discourse Analysis Of A News Report Regarding The Stall In Turkey’s Eu Process
Alaaddin F. Paksoy ritical discourse analysis has three dimensions, which are “text, discursive practice and social practise” (Jensen, Klaus Bruhn, 2002: 106). In order to understand these dimensions better,...
Can Turkey’s Main Secularist Party Make a Comeback?
Nicholas Birch nationwide, the CHP only managed to get 2 percent more votes than in general elections in 2007. But in Istanbul, Turkey’s biggest city, it increased votes by 10...
An Unwanted Guest
David J. Kramer, Irina Krasovskaya he European Union finds itself in an awkward position at the moment: hoping that an invited guest finds reason to stay away. Last...