The Pakistan-EU summit will take place on April 10, a follow up to the first meeting last autumn. But you would be hard-pressed to know anything about the event, since nobody is taking ownership of it: not Herman Van Rompuy, the European Council’s new permanent president; not Catherine Ashton, the EU’s new foreign policy chief; not even Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Zapatero, who has pushed Spain onto the stage in plenty of other areas.
没有比欧盟的巴基斯坦政策更能揭示欧盟崇尚空谈的偏好了。作为去年8月首次会议的延续，巴基斯坦-欧盟峰会将会在4月10日召开。但是你无法对这一大事有什么了解，因为没有人在负责筹备这一会议：新任欧洲理事会常任主席赫尔曼·范龙佩没有在筹备这场会议；新任的欧盟外长凯瑟琳·阿斯顿也不管这事；那位在其他许多领域都把西班牙推向了前台的西班牙首相何塞·路易斯·萨帕特罗也没有在筹备这场会议。