Publication

This collection deals with the foreign and security issues that we believe will gain particular relevance for the EU during the German Presidency. Rather than addressing all aspects of European foreign and security policy, we concentrate on a small selection where a heightened need for action is to be expected, and also look at others that call for initiatives whose timeframe extends beyond the first half of 2007. There is no doubt that there is an urgent need for action on the question of the status of Kosovo, to communicate European perspectives for the states of the Western Balkans, in Trans-Dniester, as well as regarding a possible realignment of relations with Japan under its new government.