In Rome on Monday, where the vice president was meeting with Italian officials, a senior administration official said, "The emphasis that the United States wants to make going forward is to make certain that we've got everybody knitted up together in terms of developing a common policy that we can all support".
In the security field, the European Council welcomes the progress made within the Union on developing a common policy for the integration of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe into the European security architecture, and the place which Russia and Ukraine will have in it.
Efforts to develop a common defence policy are also picking up speed, as it emerged that France and Germany are intensifying efforts for great military co-operation.
In the last 10 years, Soros has been disappointed by the facts that the west refused to forgive Greece's debt; failed to develop a common refugee policy; and would not consider augmenting sanctions on Russia with the material and financial support Ukraine required to defend itself after Putin's 2014 annexation of Crimea.
1) An optimistic scenario: Europeans develop a common fiscal policy and the ECB supports weak countries.
The signal failure in this regard came with Europe's inability to develop a common immigration policy.
On April 29, 10 days after a boat carrying at least 700 migrants capsized off the coast of Libya, European lawmakers adopted a resolution to develop a common migration policy.
Agenda-setting power has also been demonstrated, in the consistent proposals to develop a common energy policy in the internal and external dimension.
The Union shall develop a common immigration policy aimed at ensuring, at all stages, the efficient management of migration flows, fair treatment of third-country nationals residing legally in Member States, and the prevention of, and enhanced measures to combat, illegal immigration and trafficking in human beings.
