(English) The European Union and Gulf Cooperation Council: Bridging the Gap or Gapping Stands?
Pubblicato in Attualità, Politics
di Aviel Attias
Ci spiace, ma questo articolo è disponibile soltanto in English.
Ci spiace, ma questo articolo è disponibile soltanto in English.
Very interesting and well written article. I would add if I may that one of the problems is that the EU as such does not have any foreign policy besides the economic policy (and the enlargement process) which partially expalins the confusion betweenn human rights and free trade. The FTA negotiations are basically our only tool, therfore they are used to poruse different and sometimes contraddictory agendas. Also, member states are more than happy to “outsource” the ethical issues to Burxelles while they follow a strictly non-ethical foreign and economic policy themselves.