A complicated and gradual process. It has to be admitted: the new EU institutional structure is encountering a few difficulties when attempting to assert itself at an international level. Herman Van Rompuy is not finding it easy to obtain recognition, alongside José Manuel Barroso, as the official EU voice at the most senior level, either by the public worldwide or by his foreign interlocutors. This is even more the case for Catherine Ashton, who is often presented (rather inaccurately) as...