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The EU's Interventionist Discourse is Hollow

The EU's Interventionist Discourse is Hollow

Autor(en): An Jacobs
Journaltitel: Atlantic Community
Verlag(e): Atlantic Initiative
Publikationsjahr: 2011

Developments in the METAL states (Morocco, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria and Libya) have shown that the EU's ability to act has changed little - if anything - since the Yugoslav wars. The EU is smothered by incapacity, indecision, and fragmentation. Upcoming EU summits will fail because Europe is still lacking any political imagination as to what must really be done.