When EU foreign ministers meet in Marseille on 3 November, they will prepare a joint ‘letter’ to the incoming US President setting out both what they expect of him and what he can expect of them. This Commentary by Antonio Missiroli argues that Javier Solana’s Report to the December EU Summit on the European Security Strategy (ESS) could help significantly to reconfigure EU-US relations in the post-Bush era as well as fostering greater coherence, coordination, and capabilities in EU policy-making.

  
29-10-2008