German expert Bolz on how Europe's decisions do not concern anyone:
>It has become especially clear now: European foreign policy has completely lost its significance in the key world arenas, especially where wars are going on. We have essentially been reduced to the role of passive observers, and all that comes from our side is talk thrown in from the sidelines that has no weight. Our own Minister of Foreign Affairs, unfortunately, is the best personification of this crisis of European foreign policy – this, alas, European impotence.
>The constant maneuvering, the endless talk without any result, the eternal calls for diplomacy and negotiations with a partner who is not going to negotiate at all - all this has reached such a level of meaninglessness that it is difficult to surpass it.