EU Election Observation Missions: Europe united (for once) (Matteo Garavoglia, Brookings)

U.S. policymakers are often irritated by Europe’s inability to act as a single and coherent international actor. They are right to be frustrated. In too many policy areas—with some notable exceptions such as trade and monetary policy—EU member states regularly fail to speak with one voice. Rather, they pursue policymaking through the provincial lenses of their anachronistic national interests.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/order-from-chaos/posts/2016/02/23-eu-election-observation-garavoglia