How EU Dropped Turkey's Reins (?)
Published on 4 June 2013 12:04, Adelina Marini, Zagreb, Twitter: @AdelinaMarini
Last change on: 4 June 2013 14:05
Being strongly focused on itself, its future and present, the European Union often in the past decade was making one and the same error - it thought that the world was going round with the same speed as EU did around itself. Alas, the popping up of the Lisbon Treaty after almost 10 years of adjustments and negotiations found the EU highly unprepared for the boomerang of globalisation which returned with enormous strength and hit EU's heart - the eurozone. The Union was neither in condition to react nor was it capable of producing a durable solution after the example of the United States, for instance, which many analysts and politicians love to make comparisons with. In spite of the new positions of a president of the European Council and the "single telephone number" for the foreign policy, embodied in Catherine Ashton, EU remains highly impotent to take quick decisions in crisis situations - both domestically and externally.
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