The Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) andthe European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) aretoday among the most dynamic and most frequentlydiscussed policy topics within the EuropeanUnion. Developing a European profile in foreign andsecurity policy has become one of the key...

EU enlargement will be a mixed bag for CFSP in the short term as the process of adaptation to working at twenty-five is undertaken. There are distinct benefits to enlargement, especially when the Union speaks with one voice at twenty-five. Of course, there is also the risk of cacophony when a...

The study presents the legal and political framework of the EP's institutional position in the EU's common foreign and security policy and analyses the constitutional role of selected national parliaments in foreign policy.

Europe and Latin America have developed the most sophisticated bi-regional structure for the management of their sub regional and bilateral relationships. This reflects not only the maturity of the dialogue but also the necessity to respond to different expectations and capacities of the actors...