Lawyer, specializing in international and EU law, arbitration and mediation, Formerly: Member of European Parliament including, chaired Legal Affairs and Internal Market Committee, Justice and Home Affairs Committee, and Conference of Committee Chairs; Member of the Spanish Cortes, chaired Joint Committee on EU in two houses of parliament; first woman to serve as Foreign Affairs Minister, Spain; Senior Vice-President and General Counsel, World Bank Group: Executive Committee Member and Senior Vice-President, International Affairs, Areva. Member, international advisory boards of think tanks and public institutions.
This year’s European Parliament election has spurred months of nail biting. Will the pro-European center hold? Will the body be too fractured to function? Will a vocal contingent of natio...
August is always a good time for taking stock. Between the rush of summer activity and the beginning of the new “school year,” this month’s lull offers a moment for reflection on where ma...
Desde el inicio formal de las negociaciones del brexit del mes pasado, tres controversias han centrado la atención: la deuda del Reino Unido con la Unión Europea, la sumisión de aquél a l...
La política internacional abunda en disputas territoriales sin resolver: desde las reivindicaciones de Japón y China sobre las Islas Senkaku/Diaoyu, al prolongado desacuerdo fronterizo en...
Tras unos desconcertantes meses en los que Donald Trump pareció arremeter contra la arquitectura institucional internacional nacida en las postrimerías de la segunda guerra mundial, diría...
La Unión Europea, por sus divisiones y tensiones, podría perder la paz, prosperidad y libertad de movimiento que han constituido sus señas de identidad, así como su amplitud de miras y ob...
El historiador británico Eric Hobsbawm denominó “corto siglo XX” al periodo comprendido entre el asesinato del Archiduque Francisco Fernando en 1914 y el desplome de la Unión Soviética en...
The late British historian Eric Hobsbawm famously called the period between Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s assassination in 1914 and the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991 the “short twentieth c...
Atrás queda 2016, annus horibilis. Y los hitos que lo marcaron –la retirada del Reino Unido de la Unión Europea, la elección de Donald Trump como presidente de Estados Unidos, las atrocid...
El 8 de noviembre, mientras se gestaba la victoria de Donald Trump, en simbólico contrapunto tenía lugar en Bruselas una conferencia conmemorativa del 80º aniversario del nacimiento de Vá...
Desde el inicio de la crisis de la eurozona en 2008, la Unión Europea ha mantenido en política una dinámica intergubernamental bajo un manto de supranacionalismo que se va desvaneciendo a...
Since the eurozone crisis began in 2008, the European Union has, from a political perspective, led an intergovernmental life in supranational clothing. But as the EU prepares to negotiate...
It is said that good things come to those who wait. If so, then the European Union’s new Global Strategy on Foreign and Security Policy, more than a decade overdue, must be a very good th...
Three years ago, the United States and the European Union launched negotiations on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), promising to complete them on “one tank of ga...
Even by European Union standards, the response to the so-called refugee crisis is a mess. This seems to defy logic: While the crisis is certainly a challenge, human rights – and, indeed, ...
