Posts Tagged ‘ Common Foreign and Security Policy ’

EU split on Palestine

October 31, 2011
By Stephen
EU split on Palestine

  Today’s vote at UNESCO’s General Conference on full membership for Palestine gives an idea of how a United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) vote could go if the membership bid gets that far. More worrying for me is the complete split among European Union member states showing the failure of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP). The application for membership was accepted by 107 Yes votes to 14 No votes with 52 Abstentions. The EU was split as follows; Countries...

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A European Army??

May 24, 2010
By Stephen
A European Army??

Image via Wikipedia Last Tuesday I attended the Alliance Francaise de Cork/UCC European Symposium. In the afternoon we split into round-tables. I went along to the round-table entitled “The Question of the European Army”. This round-table was led by Quentin Perret of Atelier Europe, Nevin Power and Frank O’Callaghan. Quentin seemed to be on his own on the Pro-Army side. He based his arguments around four points. Security Influence Military Division Efficiencies from Commonalities On the other hand the...

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