Has the EU the political will to turn fine words into action?

‘We are seen by the rest of the world as a big player. But we just have not believed it ourselves up to now’

The European Union looks a lot different today following the three-day summit in Greece, where it made decisions about itself and its role in the world.

The past year has been a difficult one for the Union: the Greek Foreign Minister George Papandreou described it as "a battle for the cohesion of the Union that we have won".