In November
2012, the New York Times reported that the European Union was offering “crucial
support for the new Syrian political opposition,” which the E.U. referred to as
the “legitimate representative for the Syrian people.” The E.U. stopped short
of “conferring full diplomatic recognition” to the new group—the National
Coalition of Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces—even though one of the
E.U.’s states, France, had conferred such recognition one week earlier, and
another state, Britain, would soon do likewise.
The full essay is at Essays on the E.U. Political Economy, available at Amazon.
