Summary

The article gives an overview of the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy as it has developed since the approvement of Solana’s Security Strategy. It will be argued that although the constitutional crisis of June 2005 was expected to cause an internal paralysis in the European Union, the CFSP has not experienced a real backslash. By looking into the developments of the 1990s it will be shown that the evolution of the CFSP has always been characterized by up and down movements and has been follwing an unwavering path - and that in particular over the last two years the EU has achieved some tangible positive results in its external relations. It will be shown that the Solana Strategy of June 2003 – which has been launched an as answer to the EU’s lack of cohesiveness during the Iraq war – gave some momentum for its engagement in an active crisis management. The enlargement fatigue however has had down-slowing effects on the policies towards the neighborhood and the development of EU’s foreign policy in concentric circles that has always build upon conditionality and socialization. The enlargement fatigue and the backslashes in the wider European neighborhood and the Former Soviet Union illustrate the problems of the EU to come down to common foreign policy decisions - a fact that makes it very likely that group initiatives of some member states to work jointly on certain issues and problems will prevail in the near future.

Европа

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Кентский университет (Великобритания)

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