There will be dire consequences on the EU's eastern border unless the EU rethinks its eastern neighbourhood strategy.

With Pakistan at a crossroads and facing a profound crisis, the EU cannot leave its policy unchanged.

ECFR?s national offices give a run down of their countries? European election results.

Europe's traditional social-democractic parties are being challenged by the far right, says Ulrike Guerot in a piece in Spanish.

We are victims of a political system designed to be boring.

The next generation of EU technocrats will need to be populists as well.

Europe must seize the opportunity presented by Obama's desire to close Guantanamo.

Twenty years after the massacre in Tiananmen Square, the EU should must help enforce the rule of law in China.

Obama's flagship Middle East speech in Cairo tomorrow will prove indicative of just how far he is willing to go in replacing the hostile Bush years.

Low turnout levels in the EU elections will only be reversed by greater transparency.

Ukraine is bouncing from one crisis to another emergency. In a speech he gave in Washington, Andrew Wilson discussed the possibility of Ukraine becoming a failed state.

European solidarity is though but necessary ? especially in today?s economic, political and security climate.

The EU should cooperate more with the UN in peacekeeping missions if it wants to show its ?effective multilateralism? is backed up by muscle.

Obama is redefining the fight against terrorism. But he has come up against some stiff criticism and urgently needs the EU's help.

This EU-Russia summit is set to be a big disappointment. Nicu Popescu discusses why.