In a speech delivered on 14 January at the "Seminar Fernandez Ordonez" (after the name of the former Spanish Foreign Minister), the Secretary General of the EU Council/High CFSP Representative Javier Solana spoke of several aspects of EU external action. We give below a few of the key passages from his speech.
"Defence of human rights is our common interest, not only for moral reasons but also political and economic reasons. One of these rights, and probably the most fundamental, is the...