Multi-tasking is not exactly the strong point of Europe's current generation of leaders. They have rightly given the eurozone crisis the central question bearing on the EU's future top priority. But all other important issues above all, a common foreign and security policy have been almost completely ignored. And it is here Europe's external relations, an issue absolutely vital to the future of all EU citizens that renationalisation is rearing its ugly head again.
Today, we can recognize the outlines of a post-American international (dis)order not only its emerging structures, but also its risks, threats, and conflicts, all of which are intensifying. For Europe and for the rest of the world the financial crisis has proven to be an accelerant of far-reaching changes.
High time for Europe to abandon provincialism | The Australian
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