Four solemn chapters. I have rarely, in my experience spanning several decades of Community documents, come across a text as imbalanced as the recent European Commission communication on strengthening the role of Europe in the world (published in No. 2438 of our EUROPE/Documents series). The main thrust of it (four out of the five chapters) illustrates the new global challenges Europe has to face, the advantages it has and the demand for greater efficiency and coherency in European action....