Dr. Benny Peiser 01.09.2008 17:00 +Feedback
Bruno Waterfield: The EU is all mouth and no trousers
This EU crisis summit is an attempt to have foreign affairs without consequences - whatever the dubious merits of the Cold War hype coming from London or the tangled rights or wrongs of the conflict in Georgia. Alexander Stubb, Finland’s foreign minister, has just told me: “We have to find a balance. The balance is between tough talk and economic consequences. My stance is yes to tough talk. No to economic consequences.” Talk without real consequences? Isn’t that just a load of old cobblers? Unlike the real Cold War, the Georgia crisis has shown how organisations, like Nato and the EU, have now become an expression of disunity between the great Western powers and, thus, a force for instability.
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