The EU, guarantor of Europe's peace. Daniel Woker is the Swiss Ambassador to Australia. The Lowy Institute's Bronwyn Lo, on the occasion of the arrest of Ratko Mladic, sees Europe raising false membership hopes for Serbia, Turkey and Cyprus, but unduly links the technicalities of three quite different EU membership quests. While her points, taken one by one, are mostly correct (exception: no 'mass protests' materialised in Belgrade after Mladic's arrest), she fails to paint the big picture of (a) Mladic in the dock as part of the historic and ongoing peacemaking role of the EU for Europe, and (b) the EU as the vehicle for the banning of Europe's century-old ghosts of religious intolerance and destructive nationalist fervour.
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. - SIPRI Internet. Peace Like A River.