A New Chapter for Europe
Timothy Garton Ash, The Guardian | October 13, 2009
The celebrations to mark the fall of the Berlin wall were faultless but talk soon turned to who should take up the high positions created by the Lisbon Treaty. ++ “Personalities matter [as we have] the possibility of creating a Europe that acts more as one.” ++ A unified foreign policy is vital to help to destroy the global poverty divide and to keep pace with the rise of China and India. ++ Monday's celebrations were about what happened within Europe, “the next chapter will depend on what we do outside it.”
