EU lethargy and growing irrelevance in global public affairs owes much to Eurocentric political atavism.

(b) Narcotic effects observed in animal studies may include lethargy, lack of coordination righting reflex, narcosis, and ataxia. If these effects are not transient in nature, than they should be considered for classification as Category 1 or 2. .

EU lethargy and growing irrelevance in global public affairs owes much to Eurocentric political atavism. One potential benefit of the Copenhagen debacle could be that it forces the Union to wake up to the new world of the twenty first century.

It is the result of an international climate where the ghosts of yesteryear, of the notion of guaranteeing peace through the fear of confrontation, have once again come to haunt us, as reflected in the breakdown of the 2005 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and the lethargy of the Disarmament Commission.