Those who hate the new Conservative-led government and those who love it seem to be united in one expectation: that Europe policy may be the coalition's downfall. David Lidington, the able new Europe minister, certainly has his work cut out for him. In the latest of the Brussels journal Europe's World, Foreign Secretary William Hague lays out the government's Europe policy, a policy...

             I have written before that for centuries one of the main aims of UK foreign policy has been to avoid one single power dominating the continent of Europe. The question today is why has the modern Foreign Office changed its mind on this fundamental issue? Why is it now UK government policy to

This site provides free access to the full text of the paper published by the Chatham House Commission on Europe after Fifty: Policy Implications for Britain, (chaired by Sir Stephen Wall) in September 2008. ISBN 978 1 86203 207 1. The 74 page report argues that Britain needs to take a new foreign policy approach towards Europe. Topics covered include: developing more proactive European foreign an...

Barack Obama is the first Democrat to be Commander in Chief in the post 9/11 era. The election of a Democrat was a necessary requirement for the emergence of a new, settled American foreign policy for this time. You can’t have a bi-partisan foreign policy consensus when only one party knows the foreign policy challenges from the inside. Certainly the Bush administration made mistakes on fore...

Europhobia strikes again in Peter Sain Ley Berry’s lame accusations against Sarkozy. We should be looking at Sarkozy activism as fulfilling the aspirations of the Schuman Declaration! God bless Sarkozy!According to some American foreign policy wonks “European nations don’t trust each other.” Apparently, some European leaders are also still frightened to death of each other ...

Our foreign policy priority must be to transfer responsibility for Afghan security to their local army and police as quickly as possible. Our wider foreign policy must embrace stronger links and more diplomatic interest in the emerging powers. I welcome today’s change of emphasis in foreign policy. You could have read it here first. The

The connection is confirmed that the “Ganley order” for Europe is about the maintenance of the American hegemon- and the European project could be in danger because of it…It is know that Declan Ganley is associated with the Foreign Policy Research Institute out of Philadelphia. A glance at this website reveals that it is the same old American realist notions about foreign policy...

Six months at the helm of the European Council has taught French President Nicolas Sarkozy the wrong lessons. According to Sarkozy, only the heads of state (France) or government (most of the others) have the legitimacy to move Europe forward. This fallacy is the nearest thing imaginable in modern day Europe to the paternalistic world-view of the rulers who formed the brittle Holy Alliance against...

In Le Taurillon, Fabien Cazenave analyses the European vision of Nicolas Sarkozy: Sarkozy veut l’Europe des etats, pas des citoyens (12 May 2009). *** President Sarkozy is a prime example of naked ambition and a European Union formed around the heads of state or government of a few member states. Ahead of the European elections, Sarkozy’s campaign opener was most edifying. Sarkozy&rsqu...

Europe's socialist leaders – a severely depleted group after recent electoral reverses – have set their sights on securing the new foreign policy post, but seem to be struggling to draw up a solid shortlist