The European Union selected its President and High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy and Vice President for External Affairs. In the classic stereotype of the dull gray bureaucrat, they've selected a couple of relative lightweights (given the nature and stature of the position) whom...
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I was going to write something about this, but that's too easy: the "drug czar" of the UK gets the sack for very publicly disagreeing with the Government's drug policy,.
The EU report on the South Ossetia War has been released, and it apportions some blame to both sides. The Georgians started the war, but the Russians created the underlying.
This does not surprise me in the least. It's been well known in the pol sci lit that the EU Parliament is best considered a "second order" election since the 90s (which is a fancy way of saying the EU Parliament is a largely powerless...
Yoav Gortzak and I have a piece on piracy and the European Union up at Foreign Policy.