After Gothenburg

a veritable must for students of world systems dynamics and the competition
between the EU and the US is the interview by Chris Patten in Die Zeit:

http://www.zeit.de/2001/25/Politik/200125_patten.html

The external relations of the EU are extremely well documented at
Commissioner Patten's website:

http://europa.eu.int/comm/external_relations/index.htm

There are endless queries possible from this site, like EU relations with
Morocco, the US and what have you; country documents, dossiers and and
and...

If do not know German for the interview above, which uses by the way Hayek
to justify a European confederation (an interesting, though hitherto
unheard-of intellectual exercise), a translation machine will give you at
least a glimpse of what this highly interesting interview is all about:

http://de.altavista.com/trns

http://www.freetranslation.com/

Kind regards

Arno Tausch