EU Foreign Affairs Fiasco

Paul Taylor in the International Herald Tribune has an article on the inadequacies and "naivety" of EU foreign policy, linked here. Things could be about to get a whole lot worse, however, as my posting on the vetoing of the book launch by Carla Del Ponte, former Chief Prosecutor at the War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague, seems to indicate. As I posted earlier, her book apparently suggest the possibility that there was a trade of Serbian prisoners' body organs during the recent Balkan conflicts, my first post on this topic is linked here. The excerpts from the book which is in Italian are yet to be quoted on the web as far as I have been able to determine, but the Swiss vetoing of her attendance at the launch hints it contains something pretty explosive. Javier Solana's rush to Kosovo to hail the breakaway Kosovan government will be deeply shamed if it turns out there is any connection between individuals possibly involved in such a barbarous trade and those within the EU supported, independence declaring new Kosovan administration. Spanish socialist Solana still seems to be unaware of the damage he has already caused, see this just in, also from the IHT. Even the cowed masses of Europe standing idly by and mostly struck dumb, as their Parliaments vote themselves into redundancy with the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, would surely rouse themselves to anger at the new potentially tyrannical arrangements being apparently run by men who can turn a blind eye to such a gruesome possibilty as the harvesting and sale of human organs. The mainstream media seem silent. The action of the Swiss in silencing their Argentinian Ambassador surely seems worthy of some mainstream media consideration?