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Hello!

First of all happy new year! 2010 has been, following a trend that had its climax in the crisis of the European constitution, a period where the shadows and uncertainties have occupied a good part of the stage of community building.
not been given the 'step' history that the European project closer to the heart of citizens ("Maybe when let us choose the President of the Commission?). The Union is built, as it can, in most cases a trailer on the circumstances and facts. still largely dominated by state interests against the community. Bad time for 'idealism' , 'values' and called 'Europeanism' . The international and global financial dynamics have not helped. In the realm of emotions and attachment, Europe continues to decline. However

strides have been institutionally and legally, with some retrospective unimaginable. The Union began in 2010 the hard (and in my view essential) way to a diplomacy and defense corps own -first step to long-term survival in a globalized world that He gave signs that Europe's role awaits if he can not stand as a geopolitical actor weight-).
In the financial field, immersed in a social and economic crisis without precedent, was the interdependence between European countries and the mechanisms that bind us to each other - like the euro - what motivated and enabled ' save' those that required it, and otherwise would have most likely fallen into an abyss. Our 'weakness' as English, Italian, German or Greek, our willingness to share some of our sovereignty and jointly regulate those flows that know no borders, was what we fell partly prevented in protectionism, nationalism and immobility in times of crisis. That oft-repeated error, so school and yet was plausible for a moment.

During the year we have lost many 'battles', to name just two that I keep especially painful stagnation a diplomatic project and internationally as the Union for the Mediterranean and the terrible omens regarding future financial resources of the Union, and with them the sustainability of the entire project.

The coming year holds for challenges certainly live up to it. But unlike 50 years ago, when the European Union was not yet 'nothing', is now a project that has been consolidated and created de facto solidarity of not only symbolic weight, but an ability to transform the reality we know. In this sense, the failures and successes are coming from the Union largely in the hands of their own bodies (the two Councils the Commission and Parliament ).

So all in all I think I'll stick with the same conclusion I drew for the English Presidency . Perhaps ultimately the greatest merit of the EU in 2010 was merely survive it. I leave the

links to two more complete summaries of European news: you can read the More Europe and blog Oh Europe. A few days ago I posted
also two collections of newspaper photos of the year. To let you take two more: the selection made by TIME and the New York Times (via Eyes of International, one of the blogs that I have recommended recently).

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