European Foreign Policy: Uniting through One Voice

Heard during the session about the European Foreign Policy:

Vaira Vike-Freiberga, President of Latvia

"We do have a Foreign Policy in Europe or our Country would not have joined it"

Bernard Guetta, Editorialist, L'Express, France Inter, France

"We will see European parties emerge, European Left, European Right, European Greens, etc"

"Europe will become a Country, we just do not know yet when"

Having seen how the EU and its members behaved after 9/11th, the War in Irak or Madrid, do you think we have a European Foreign Policy ?

Comments

[IJ]

President of Latvia: "We do have a Foreign Policy in Europe or our Country would not have joined it"

Unfortunately, the German foreign minister seems to disagree. Moreover, Joschka Fischer suggests that a European Foreign Policy is unrealistic.

>He said that Germany would agree to creating a single EU seat if France and the UK would give up their own seats. He added, however, that "this will not happen in the near future, so the debate is over before it has even started".< http://euobserver.com/?aid=18227&rk=1

A common foreign and security policy for the EU might please Latvia and taxpayers elsewhere in the EU. However value for money savings from public spending generally have a low priority with parliaments and electors. Then again, so does the 'Lisbon' economic agenda.

[Heiko Hebig]

From everything I have seen, read, and experienced in the past: there is no European foreign policy - or if there is one, it is not communicated to the public. Maybe all 25 country leaders think there is one, which then in essence creates 25 foreign policies, but definitely not one uniform policy. Unfortunately.