An artificial link. It is essential to sever the artificial link, established by many political figures and commentators, between the work of the Convention relating to the development of the Common Foreign Policy (CFSP) and the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP), on the one hand, and the stances of Member States over Iraq, on the other. The different attitudes of the Fifteen towards American intentions are all too often interpreted as proof of the failure of CFSP and, even worse,...