Catherine Ashton, president of the European Action Service The Libyan crisis splits Europe. The European Union, in fact, can not find a common position. Too many voices and too many bureaucratic ties that bind all decisions unanimously. Without that every action is impossible. Yet, in 2009, something had been designed with the creation of a European External Action Service (EEAS), immediately hailed as one of the most important innovations of the Lisbon Treaty, which entered into force in 2009.
More than a year and the ongoing war, we are beginning to ask where the action is over. Just the EEAS was to become a "European Foreign Ministry" to enable the EU to speak with one voice in foreign policy. Faced with the crisis, are instead bringing out the eyes of all the limitations of this project.
The first criticism of the Service d'Action is still raining when he had to open the offices. The choice of Baroness Catherine Ashton, in fact, was deemed by many as a last resort of European diplomacy, in those months, unable to choose between the two most well-renowned Tony Blair and Massimo D'Alema as a result of an interplay of vetoes.
At the end won the day his Lady Ashton, who came from behind and embodiment of two features that the future head EEAS had to have for reasons of political balance, "woman" and "socialist." The fact is that the baroness, without even time to sit on the new chair, he faced a long series of foreign crises that do not accord with his diplomatic experience stunted.
But the most difficult test, after the earthquake in Haiti, the crises in Belarus, and Ivory Coast, and revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, it seems to be Libya's Gaddafi. After extraordinary summits and meetings with major world leaders, Catherine Ashton has seemed in constant trouble to seek a common position among the 27 member countries.
Lacking this, the Baroness was forced to go to the trailer of the most enterprising French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Pino Arlacchi, socialist MEP member of the European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee and former head of the UN, breaking half a spear in his favor. "The Ashton is not shining in his conduct, but the real limit is imposed by the European treaties which oblige the EU to act always by consensus.
Without the agreement of all, the whole system crashes. " Arlacchi reason, the EU foreign policy did not mandate full, but then what can the Ashton? "Not much - according Arlacchi - since the EEAS is only one administrative bureaucracy. The real problem is politics. " The result, continues Arlacchi, is that "Europe is now split into three: the Franco-British interventionists, skeptics German Italian and half-measures." Less popular French critic Dominique Baudis, vice president of the Foreign Affairs Committee, which speaks of "glass half full and half empty, since there are disagreements, but also many agreements." "In a policy at 27 is not easy to be all along.
The Aston must find formulas common to everyone, but she is not the political engine of the EU. Defence policy remains a matter for the Member States ". In short, as the French diplomat said Maxime Lefebvre, "The EU joint statements only serve to mask the differences between member states".
Harder Ana Gomes, the Portuguese and the socialist rapporteur of a European parliament report on Libya. "Although we need to act unanimously, in the planning stages Lady Ashton's power of initiative, that nation states can put in front of the line of the EU. So far it has exercised this power, NATO has preferred to chase and allow national governments to move so scattered.
" In short, according to Gomes, the High Representative should have been more "enterprising" since "at stake is the reputation of the EU nel'intero Arab world, already compromised for their support for years to tyrants like Mubarak and Gaddafi ". Here today, after its official settlement January 1, 2011 and awaiting the next steps on Libya, the External Service of Action has reached its peak of activity with hundreds of new division of seats between Member States' diplomatic and officials of the former Directorate-General for External Relations of the European Commission. 
More than a year and the ongoing war, we are beginning to ask where the action is over. Just the EEAS was to become a "European Foreign Ministry" to enable the EU to speak with one voice in foreign policy. Faced with the crisis, are instead bringing out the eyes of all the limitations of this project.
The first criticism of the Service d'Action is still raining when he had to open the offices. The choice of Baroness Catherine Ashton, in fact, was deemed by many as a last resort of European diplomacy, in those months, unable to choose between the two most well-renowned Tony Blair and Massimo D'Alema as a result of an interplay of vetoes.
At the end won the day his Lady Ashton, who came from behind and embodiment of two features that the future head EEAS had to have for reasons of political balance, "woman" and "socialist." The fact is that the baroness, without even time to sit on the new chair, he faced a long series of foreign crises that do not accord with his diplomatic experience stunted.
But the most difficult test, after the earthquake in Haiti, the crises in Belarus, and Ivory Coast, and revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, it seems to be Libya's Gaddafi. After extraordinary summits and meetings with major world leaders, Catherine Ashton has seemed in constant trouble to seek a common position among the 27 member countries.
Lacking this, the Baroness was forced to go to the trailer of the most enterprising French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Pino Arlacchi, socialist MEP member of the European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee and former head of the UN, breaking half a spear in his favor. "The Ashton is not shining in his conduct, but the real limit is imposed by the European treaties which oblige the EU to act always by consensus.
Without the agreement of all, the whole system crashes. " Arlacchi reason, the EU foreign policy did not mandate full, but then what can the Ashton? "Not much - according Arlacchi - since the EEAS is only one administrative bureaucracy. The real problem is politics. " The result, continues Arlacchi, is that "Europe is now split into three: the Franco-British interventionists, skeptics German Italian and half-measures." Less popular French critic Dominique Baudis, vice president of the Foreign Affairs Committee, which speaks of "glass half full and half empty, since there are disagreements, but also many agreements." "In a policy at 27 is not easy to be all along.
The Aston must find formulas common to everyone, but she is not the political engine of the EU. Defence policy remains a matter for the Member States ". In short, as the French diplomat said Maxime Lefebvre, "The EU joint statements only serve to mask the differences between member states".
Harder Ana Gomes, the Portuguese and the socialist rapporteur of a European parliament report on Libya. "Although we need to act unanimously, in the planning stages Lady Ashton's power of initiative, that nation states can put in front of the line of the EU. So far it has exercised this power, NATO has preferred to chase and allow national governments to move so scattered.
" In short, according to Gomes, the High Representative should have been more "enterprising" since "at stake is the reputation of the EU nel'intero Arab world, already compromised for their support for years to tyrants like Mubarak and Gaddafi ". Here today, after its official settlement January 1, 2011 and awaiting the next steps on Libya, the External Service of Action has reached its peak of activity with hundreds of new division of seats between Member States' diplomatic and officials of the former Directorate-General for External Relations of the European Commission.
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