To respond to the growing calls to help tackle regional and global security challenges, the EU must improve the efficiency and coherence of its external action still further.

The greatest success of Europe s external policy has been EU enlargement.

External actors like the EU or individual EU states could offer their support and facilitate talks on political and constitutional reforms.

The EU is Missing in Action in Afghanistan

The European External Action Service (EEAS), which is meant to enable the EU to speak with one voice, was launched only at the end of 2010 and many senior positions remain unfilled.

The EU is the region s most important partner, accounting for over two thirds of its external trade.

This regulation will provide for an obligatory declaration of movement of cash across the external EU borders.

No policy area better illustrates this EU preference for talk over action than Pakistan.

In other words, this strategy is compatible with EU accession only if the EU strengthens its own capacity for concerted action on foreign policy.

In particular, the effect of external protectionism (i.e., EU agricultural subsidies) will depend on whether African nations are importers or exporters.

We remain fully committed to the implementation of the EU Action Plan on Combating Terrorism.

Now is the time for the EU to use its relative strength and take bold action.

Today s preference by individual EU members to act unilaterally on energy must be replaced by a common energy policy based on solidarity among member states and unity in defending EU interests vis à vis external partners.

The EU has also suddenly awakened to the need for a common external energy security policy, not least to diversify away from Russian supplies.

This week, a meeting of the EU s General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) will discuss once more relations between the EU and Cuba.

So the primary difference between the US and the EU was not the Kyoto Protocol or the EU s climate policies, but external factors. The European Environment Agency still maintains that the EU will meet its 2012 target.

While all EU leaders have advocated using the budget to stimulate economic growth, little action is being taken.

In response to France s position, the Swedish government also called for concerted EU action to foster Roma inclusion.

There are plenty of areas in which common action at the EU level is both appropriate and efficient.

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Two external shocks first from the US, and now from Europe have transformed the Four Uns into an action plan.

And it is here Europe s external relations, an issue absolutely vital to the future of all EU citizens that renationalization is rearing its ugly head again.

The recent first evaluation of the implementation of the EU Moldova Action Plan showed encouraging results and steady progress.

AGREES that the EU action to support the ICPD agenda should be pursued both at global and country level.

The EU welcomes the action of those of the five nuclear weapon States which have declared the relevant moratorium.

The EU welcomes the action of those of the five nuclear weapon States which have decreed the relevant moratorium

In November 2004, EU member States agreed on a Joint Action in support of the activities of the OPCW.

The EU welcomes the action of those of the five nuclear weapon States that have decreed the relevant moratorium.

Although action for development must be largely local, it is critically dependent in our globalized world on the external economic environment.

This is the crux of the Lisbon Treaty, which is designed to usher in new institutions and mechanisms aimed at creating more politically cohesive EU external policies.

The EU Programme for Action, announced earlier this year, outlines our future strategy for combating HIV AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.

The Programme of Action recognized that LDCs would not be able to provide such resources themselves and thus required significant external support.

If EU leaders hesitate to take action on climate change, they will be sabotaging their own economy s prospects for sustainable recovery.

Often, however, the EU cannot respond or can do so only slowly, because its structure obstructs quick decisions and fast action.

People are counting on Europe to take action. But, because EU decisions often have to be taken unanimously, this can be difficult.

Freedom of choice describes an individual's opportunity and autonomy to perform an action selected from at least two available options, unconstrained by external parties.

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But it is not yet clear, whatever the Lisbon Treaty says, that Ashton has full control of either the EU external budget or of appointments to the new diplomatic service.

Under the European Union (EU) Action Plan for the Republic of Moldova, signed in February 2005, his Government was committed to following the EU Strategy against Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction and its export control regimes.

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If the EU wants to be a serious global player to which the US turns as a credible partner (showing up at its summits, for a start), the Pakistan EU summit is a good opportunity to start replacing words with action.

In particular, success will require turning the European External Action Service (EEAS) into an effective diplomatic corps that can convert the EU s huge resources into real power.

Already, issues like climate change and energy supply demonstrate the futility of isolated national action and the critical importance of both deepening and enlarging the EU.

Now it is up to export oriented EU countries like Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Austria to press for action on the American offer of negotiations.