The establishment of a new EU diplomatic corps–the European External Action Service–under the leadership of a strengthened high representative represents a landmark in European foreign policy. As the corps takes formation this spring, Federiga Bindi, a nonresident senior fellow at Brookings, and her co-authors have assessed the EU’s progress over the past decade in managing its external relations in their new book "The Foreign Policy of the European Union. Assessing Europe's Role in the World" (Brookings Press, 2009). 
 
On April 8, 2010, the Heinrich Böll Stiftung North America and the Center on the United States and Europe at Brookings will hold a panel discussion to launch the book and discuss the past, present and future of EU foreign policy. This panel is part of an ongoing joint series of briefings and discussions on the future of the European Union. The discussion will feature Giuliano Amato, former Italian prime minister, who wrote a preface for the book; Andrew Moravcsik, professor at Princeton, who contributed to the book; Dan Hamilton, director of the Center for Transatlantic Relations; and Pierre Vimont, the French ambassador to the United States. Brookings Senior Fellow and CUSE Director Fiona Hill will introduce the panel, and Federiga Bindi will moderate the discussion.
 
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Introduction
Fiona Hill
Senior Fellow and Director
Center on the United States and Europe
The Brookings Institution

Moderator
Federiga Bindi
Nonresident Senior Fellow
The Brookings Institution

Panelists
Giuliano Amato
Former Prime Minister of Italy
Vice President
European Constitutional Convention

Daniel Hamilton
Director, Center for Transatlantic Relations,
SAIS, Johns Hopkins University

Andrew Moravcsik
Professor of Politics and Director, European Union Program
Princeton University

Pierre Vimont
Ambassador of France to the United States