On 17th May 2006 the European Parliament voted for the agreement on the Financial Framework 2007-2013. The EU has decided that in that period a total of Euro 49.463 million will be spent on its external policy, which constitutes an average increase of 29%. This development is in line with public...

At the European Council summit in June 2007 the heads of state and government agreed to create the office of a High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and an External Action Service. Yet, at the same time several of the 23 footnotes of the Presidency Conclusion...

The rejection of the Treaty of Lisbon by the Irish has given rise to the possibility of revisiting its central tenets. This is urgently needed for the formulation of a coherent European Foreign and Security Policy. While the new member states tend to have a transatlantic orientation, many old...

Like the tsunami in Asia at the end of 2004, the earthquake in Haiti at the beginning of this year demonstrated the shortcomings of European crisis response capabilities. Drawing on the Lisbon Treaty, the responsible European Commissioner has therefore announced her intention to make a concrete...

A lack of political initiative and strategic orientation keeps Europe from securing its position in the world. Meaningful coordination will not come from institutional tinkering but from political vision and will. This lack of political cohesion on European foreign policies can only truly change...

The European Commission has created a new foreign affairs project team led by Federica Mogherini, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. This institutional reform represents yet another attempt to overcome the incoherence between the CFSP and the...

A wave of new foreign policy and security challenges have made certain aspects of earlier European Union strategic thinking obsolete. In response, Federica Mogherini, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, has announced her intention to prepare a...

Außerdem erschienen u.d.T.: Die digitale Selbstbehauptung der EU. - Berlin : Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, 2015. - (SWP-aktuell ; 71/2015)

The trade in digital technology and services has become an absolutely central element of international economic relations. A substantial part of this trade is associated with the transfer of data, some of it personal, and many of the new products and services emerging in connection with the...