The Arab Spring, the changing Mediterranean, and the EU: tools as a substitute for strategy?

Jun 30, 2011

Rosa Balfour

Senior Adviser on Europe in the World

What is missing, argues Rosa Balfour in this Policy Brief, is a guiding vision to make EU foreign policy more than the sum of its parts.

Read the full paper here

Related publications

COMMENTARY

Icelandic EU ambitions: half-in, but still reluctant to join

Aug 20, 2026

by Tobias Etzold

EU ENLARGEMENT ICELAND

EPC ROUND-UP

The EPC Summer Reading List

Aug 14, 2026

by Georg Riekeles, Johannes Greubel, Fabian Zuleeg, Helena Hahn, Brooke Moore, Elizabeth Kuiper, Paweł Świeboda, Varg Folkman, Samuel Goodger, Talisa Mazzoni, Liza Saris, Tabea Schaumann, Javier Carbonell, Linda Solstrand Dahlberg, Edward Fishman, Bart Hogeveen, Levente Kocsis, Maria Martisiute, Maria Demertzis, Tobias Etzold, Vanna Curin

To the Point

To compute or not to compute?

Aug 12, 2026

by Elizabeth Kuiper

AI AND DIGITAL POLICIES DIGITAL GOVERNANCE ECONOMIC SECURITY

EPC FLASH ANALYSIS

The EU’s response to Ceuta: the first stress test after the Pact reforms?

Aug 05, 2026

by Helena Hahn

ASYLUM BORDER CONTROL MIGRATION

POLICY BRIEF

From sea to space: How the EU can turn the tide on the Arctic