Europe's Foreign Minister Catherine Ashton spoke with TIME senior editor Simon Robinson and correspondent Leo Cendrowicz. Highlights:
Let's get to what Europe stands for, which for an outsider is quite ill-defined. What is Europe's foreign policy?
When I was E.U. trade commissioner, I represented an economic superpower of 500 million people. And that meant I could do better trade deals. I was able to represent the E.U. more clearly. In foreign policy, there are times when speaking with one voice and it doesn't have to be mine allows us to engage better on...