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The controversy surrounding the Lisbon Treaty should be viewed as awarning. It must be very clear on both sides of the Atlantic thatNATO must maintain its primacy in European defense and must havethe right of first refusal over the European Security and DefensePolicy for all military operations involving European countries.

The European Union must adapt its play from fair-weather conditions to great power competition. A more effective foreign policy requires changes to the bloc’s decisionmaking processes and institutional arrangements.

The summer and winter changes were set to be scrapped from 2021, but there’s disagreement among EU countries.

Von A wie Ausgleichsmandate bis Z wie Zweitstimme. Das Wahllexikon erklärt die wichtigsten Begriffe rund um die Bundestagswahl am 26. September.

Save Save I am a European. I lived many years in Brussels. I rather love the old place. And so I resent the way we continually confuse Europe – the home of the greatest and richest culture in the world, to which Britain is and will be an eternal contributor – with the political project of the European Union. It is, therefore, vital to stress that there is nothing necessarily anti-European or xenophobic in wanting to vote Leave on June 23. "We are seeing a slow and invisible process of...