The European Union (EU) today possesses capabilities and institutions, but is still unable to deliver the foreign policies expected owing to a lack of decision-making procedures capable of overcoming dissent. The EU lacks cohesiveness, the capacity to make assertive collective decisions and stick to them. The gap between what the member-states are expected to agree on and what they are actually able to agree upon is both the cause and effect of the ambiguous nature of EU foreign policies. Attempts at overcoming the weakness of consensus policy-making have only marginally improved the consistency and effectiveness of the Common Foreign and Security Policy. The Consensus-Expectations Gap is today the main reason why the EU in the foreseeable ...
First published online: 29 June 2017After a decade of economic and political crises, the European Un...
Europeans want the EU to play a bigger international role but while the expectations of citizens rem...
This spring the EU is reconsidering, debating and reformulating its future foreign policy agenda. Dr...
The European Union (EU) today possesses capabilities and institutions, but is still unable to delive...
'European foreign policy' itself was, and remains, an elusive concept. It can be applied to the tout...
The core idea of the European Union’s (EU) foreign policy is that lasting peace and stability can on...
The EU has long aspired to be a major player in global affairs. Despite having considerable diplomat...
Spyros Economides argues that the eurocrisis has resulted in a more ‘introverted’ Europe. Existentia...
“We, the political leaders of the EU member states, in order to ensure the security of our citizens ...
The Common Foreign & Security Policy (CFSP) is a transnational policy framework to deliver collectiv...
With the Euro in crisis, EU foreign policy evidently suffers for lack of money and attention. But th...
Defence date: 22 November 2001Examining Board: Richard Breen, EUI (supervisor) ; Prof. Gerald Schnei...
This article identifies relevant explanatory concepts of European foreign policy (EFP) and organizes...
[From the introduction]. The EU today is one of the most unusual and widest-ranging political actors...
This comment by Jean Pisani-Ferry is based on an intervention made at the international conference "...
First published online: 29 June 2017After a decade of economic and political crises, the European Un...
Europeans want the EU to play a bigger international role but while the expectations of citizens rem...
This spring the EU is reconsidering, debating and reformulating its future foreign policy agenda. Dr...
The European Union (EU) today possesses capabilities and institutions, but is still unable to delive...
'European foreign policy' itself was, and remains, an elusive concept. It can be applied to the tout...
The core idea of the European Union’s (EU) foreign policy is that lasting peace and stability can on...
The EU has long aspired to be a major player in global affairs. Despite having considerable diplomat...
Spyros Economides argues that the eurocrisis has resulted in a more ‘introverted’ Europe. Existentia...
“We, the political leaders of the EU member states, in order to ensure the security of our citizens ...
The Common Foreign & Security Policy (CFSP) is a transnational policy framework to deliver collectiv...
With the Euro in crisis, EU foreign policy evidently suffers for lack of money and attention. But th...
Defence date: 22 November 2001Examining Board: Richard Breen, EUI (supervisor) ; Prof. Gerald Schnei...
This article identifies relevant explanatory concepts of European foreign policy (EFP) and organizes...
[From the introduction]. The EU today is one of the most unusual and widest-ranging political actors...
This comment by Jean Pisani-Ferry is based on an intervention made at the international conference "...
First published online: 29 June 2017After a decade of economic and political crises, the European Un...
Europeans want the EU to play a bigger international role but while the expectations of citizens rem...
This spring the EU is reconsidering, debating and reformulating its future foreign policy agenda. Dr...