International Crisis Group Deputy President (Operations) Nick Grono lays out some goals to shoot for: the rule of law, mutual accountability, and institution building, not patronage -- and warns that there are no effective quick fixes. It's all part of a speech at a conference sponsored by the European Policy Centre. Relevant reading in the Continent or off it:

Some will say that yes, mistakes were made, but we have to deal with our current reality.  But we shouldn’t give up on our strategy of institution building – the fact is that it’s not so much that it has failed, but we have hardly tried.

No entity is spared criticism, but Grono offers suggestions on a way forward. Read it all.