Brussels - Europe and the United States should push for international intervention in third countries to prevent conflict, a European Union briefing paper says. The paper on future EU-US relations, drawn up by the French presidency of the EU, is due to be discussed by the bloc's foreign ministers Monday, the eve of the US presidential election.
It is intended to help the EU set up a "minimum common platform" of principles which each member state will use in dealing with the next US president, the text's preamble says.
"Current limits on external intervention (capacity, legitimacy) cannot be used as an excuse for inaction: we must take all our responsibilities, and start thinking about the problems of intervention and the articulation between the UN and regional organizations," the paper seen by Deutsche Presse-Agentur
