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Saturday 12 July, 2008

Changing relationships - the US, UK and EU

Jim Murphy with Jim Glassman, US Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs

For those of you who have been following my visit to the US I thought I should post a quick blog on a second speech I gave. I spoke at the Brookings Institution this morning in Washington. The topic was about the evolution of the transatlantic agenda, and the vital role of public diplomacy in it. Click here to read it . Let me know what you think.

There was a good discussion about climate change, Russia, the media and cooperation between democracies. I enjoyed it and it was great of Brookings to host it. Its been a busy 24 hours for them with British politicians because my friend and UK Defence Secretary Des Browne spoke there yesterday. Click here to read his speech 

Posted at 14:52 12 July 2008 by Jim Murphy  |  Comments[3]

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Sorry, but the speech reads like airy fairy rubbish. The Kremlin must be laughing reading all that nonsense about climate change and "rules based diplomacy".

Posted by Alexander King on July 13, 2008 at 03:59 AM BST #

Interesting speech Jim. I've noted your comment about how you can communicate with the Arab street in a credible way. Well getting our boys out of Iraq might be a start. To be honest we don't have a shred of credibility on the arab street. We should pray that we aren't on the receiving end of an invasion under a foreign power. I don't think any of us could possible know what that is like.

Posted by Kamran Aziz on July 15, 2008 at 03:09 PM BST #

Dear Jim Murphy: I'm trying to solve Dublin-in-EU/Lisbon question. Offered already solutions for Neutrality et an EU Commissioner for every EU-member nationstate. By CFSP for every EU member-state, globally EU gets also ESDP to have commonality sans neutrality available. At future an EU-global joining the NATO as powerful single membership of NATO. At the limit, no Neutrality for Republic Eire, Austria, Finland, Sweden and more who democraticaly may well wish to be Neutral. The Treaty of Lisbon underpins free status quo. Hence to avoid a commoned CESDP, the EU has advantage in limiting to its Petersberg Tasks, also advantageous for NATO/USA. In any case, there are enough EU member-states also in NATO to join 'coalitions of the willing' on globalised missions under USA leadership but following individual nationstate own solidarity choices.

Posted by Stefan Peter. on July 25, 2008 at 09:01 AM BST #

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