The EU's Interventionist Discourse is Hollow

Author(s): An Jacobs
Journal Title: Atlantic Community
Publisher(s): Atlantic Initiative
Publication Year: 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.

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