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To formulate such a policy requires us to frame a single energy policy. Lady Ashton will need to be firm in dealing with Russia and with member states who subordinate Europe to the commercial interests of their national energy companies.

Moreover, handshakes were exchanged by the two countries foreign ministers, when John Kerry and Javad Zarif, joined by the European Union s top diplomat, Catherine Ashton, held a formal meeting to organize the upcoming nuclear negotiations in Geneva. Kerry and Zarif shook hands again when the two met separately.

LONDON The selection of Herman van Rompuy as President of the European Union s Council of Ministers, and of Lady Catherine Ashton as the EU s foreign policy chief, surely underlines the extent to which member states are in the driver s seat in the EU. They manage its institutions in their own interest.

Europe, for its part, has a good opportunity to vindicate itself by committing to a united, coherent, and effective foreign policy. The European Union, now through High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton, has always been a key actor in the negotiations between Iran and the P5 1.

But the trend toward normalcy among European leaders coincides with a remarkable absence of vision and strategy. If any of these normal leaders have a long term strategy for Europe (can anyone imagine such a thing from EU Council President Herman Van Rompuy or the Union s foreign policy supremo, Catherine Ashton?), they are remarkably unable to convey it.

During the Libyan crisis, Solana s successor, Catherine Ashton, deliberately sought to limit the EU s role to that of a super NGO focused on humanitarian aid and economic development. Recently, during the vote on Palestinian representation at the United Nations, the EU called for its members to abstain an odd way to affirm Europe s commitment to global leadership.

In foreign and security policy, New Power, New Responsibility proposes strengthening the role of the EU High Representative and the role of the European Action Service. Current EU High Representative Catherine Ashton continues to prove the worth of EU foreign policy institutions by, for example, brokering a remarkable peace between Serbia and Kosovo and playing a key role in nuclear negotiations with Iran.

US Secretary of State John Kerry, EU High Representative Catherine Ashton, and the other parties to the talks all supported by able teams of diplomats hammered out the deal s details over months, staying at the table, compromising, holding firm, and managing the expectations of multiple players (including the press). The Obama administration committed itself to global leadership through civilian rather than military power.

Two days earlier, United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk and European Union Trade Commissioner Catherine Ashton had completed successful talks on Russia s accession to the WTO with Putin s first deputy, Igor Shuvalov, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, and Minister of Economy and Development Elvira Nabiullina. As late as June 3, Putin had declared himself sure of Russia s swift joining of the WTO.

Barack Obama, who wants to be a transformative president like his role model, Abraham Lincoln, could do worse to deserve the Nobel Peace Prize that he received prematurely than to facilitate a comprehensive Middle East peace settlement. Few expect such a colossal achievement, of course, but far fewer expect anything remotely similar from Catherine Ashton, the EU s foreign policy czarina, or, for that matter, any European leader.