European Union Common Foreign and Security Policy

On common foreign and security policy (CFSP), Turkey voiced support for the overall objectives in the Global strategy for the European Union's Foreign and Security Policy, stated the Commission's report. Turkey aligned itself, when invited, with 10 out of 64 EU declarations and Council decisions, ...

On 19 March 2018, the Council adopted Decision (CFSP) 2018/421 [1] implementing Council Decision 2013/255/CFSP. The Decision adds four persons to the list of natural and legal persons, entities or bodies subject to restrictive measures. The Candidate Countries the former Yugoslav Republic of ...

The municipal elections in October 2017 confirmed the support of citizens for the EU-oriented policies of the government coalition. The Parliament has continued functioning with opposition parties chairing key committees. The Parliament needs to enhance its oversight and legislative functions, including by ...

Although Montenegro so far remained outside the main Western Balkans migration route to the EU, it witnessed an increase in the number of migrants/asylum seekers entering its territory and ... Montenegro has continued to align with all EU common foreign and security policy positions and declarations.

Bosnia and Herzegovina's alignment with EU Common Foreign and Security Policy has yet to be improved. ... Bosnia and Herzegovina has made some progress and remained at an early stage in achieving the capacity to cope with competitive pressure and market forces within the European Union.

“The EU is made of the entirety of its members,” said Maas. But in some areas, like foreign affairs, adopting decisions by a qualified majority is “feasible” according to the treaties, he added. All 28 member states' support is needed to approve “sensitive” issues, including common foreign and security policy.

Support to civil society actors has undoubtedly been valuable, even if it has not been sufficient to avoid complications to political reform in these three countries or to contribute in a major way to the EU's stated strategic objectives. In Turkey and Egypt, external support has done little to temper government ...

Norway is also a strong supporter of the EU's Common foreign and security policy, as well as its security and defence policy. We will continue our efforts to improve our long-standing and close relationship, both by developing existing tools, and by looking into new possibilities and areas. I will go into more ...

Indeed, rather than this ability being diminished by Britain Leaving the European Union and its Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), we will instead be able to pursue an even more pioneering foreign policy -- one befitting a global power. The creation of an EU Foreign Minister -- the 'High ...

But the explicit refusal to do so by others—most vocally by the Austrian chancellor and echoed by Greece and Slovakia—shows the limits of any EU common foreign and security policy (CFSP). Greece is especially an interesting case: failing to support the UK after a chemical weapon attack, while benefiting ...

The member states delegate sovereignty to the EU institutions to represent the interests of the European Union as a whole. ... UK, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Denmark, Ireland, and Portugal) extend their cooperation into the areas of justice and home affairs and a common foreign and security policy.

On 26 February 2018, the Council adopted Decision (CFSP) 2018/284 [1] implementing Council Decision 2013/255/CFSP. The Decision adds two persons to the list of persons and entities subject to restrictive measures. The Candidate Countries the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia*, Montenegro*, ...

On 15 February 2018, the Council adopted Decision (CFSP) 2018/224[1] amending Council Decision 2011/101/CFSP and Decision (CFSP) 2018/227[2] amending Council Decision 2011/101/CFSP. Decision (CFSP) 2018/224 extends the restrictive measures until 20 February 2019. The Decision ...

Since the 2000s, thaws in relations between Russia and the European Union have repeatedly alternated with periods of mutual distrust, RIA Novosti ... time, Javier Solana, then the EU's high representative for common foreign and security policy, stated optimistically that although there were disagreements ...

Because there's no other choice. There's an urgent need for an effective common foreign and security policy and a common asylum policy. Events in recent years have made this very clear.' During his speech Rutte, the fourth-longest serving EU prime minister, outlined eight key proposals which he said are ...

The EU treaty currently says that "the European Council shall act unanimously" when it takes decisions on common foreign and security policy (CFSP). The treaty contains derogations for votes on minor CFSP actions, but even these can be vetoed by any of the 28 EU states on grounds of "vital and stated ...

After the 15th meeting of the Azerbaijan-EU Cooperation Council in Brussels on February 9, the EU's High Representative Federica Mogherini praised negotiations with .... The EU demonstrated a similar stance in the EP's resolution on Common Foreign and Security Policy, dated December 13, 2017.

On 2 February 2018, the Council adopted Decision (CFSP) 2018/168[1] amending Council Decision (CFSP) 2015/740. The Council added three persons to the list of persons and entities subject to restrictive measures. The Candidate Countries the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia*, Montenegro*, ...

The European Union is making a regrettable mistake by following NATO's strategy of pushing eastwards and giving the post-communist countries a choice ... The fact that the EU demands every candidate to join the EU's common foreign and security policy comes from the same philosophy and mentality.

She was speaking at the Interparliamentary Conference on Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and Common Security and Defence Policy ... of the Bulgarian and European parliaments that Bulgaria had made significant efforts to return the Balkans to the strategic agenda of the European Union.

... to hardline Eurosceptics yesterday, vowing to take back control of UK foreign policy when Britain leaves the European Union in March next year. The prime minister used a speech at a security conference in Munich to declare that she would pull Britain out of the EU's “common foreign and security policy”, ...

“Swiftly after departure in 2019, we will come out of the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy. We will have a truly independent and sovereign foreign policy.” The source pointed to a major diplomatic row, in 2007, when membership of the CFSP forced the UK to take part in a joint approach with which ...

Theresa May wants to leave the EU's common foreign and security policy as early as next year, but would show flexibility around the UK's red lines to secure a new security treaty. “There is no reason why we should not agree distinct agreements for our foreign and defence policy cooperation in the ...

The tension between the U.S. and the EU, which is in pursuit of an independent military and commercial freedom once again, has reached a completely different level with U.S. President Donald Trump taking office. The Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) request, first established in 1992 with the ...

In February 2008 I accompanied Javier Solana, the European Union's High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy, to Kosovo's capital, Pristina. The trip ... The second sought to enhance local ownership by transferring responsibilities from the ICO to the Kosovo authorities and the EU.

After the Maastricht Treaty paved the way for a common foreign and security policy in 1992, the EU Commissioner for External Relations and an EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs gave the EU visibility with a coordinated voice in global issues like the US-presided Middle East peace process.

Now is not the moment for either the European Union or the United Kingdom to risk allowing the political tensions around Brexit to harm their own ..... Because the EU's external security mainly relies on the intergovernmental area of CSDP and the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), it will be ...

Therefore, lending to consumers, in the sense of the relevant EU Directive on credit agreement for consumers, should not fall in the scope of the CF Regulation. The CF Regulation gives clarity on the fact that if the CFSP is registered with ESMA, it will not authorised under MiFID, AIFM, UCITS, Credit ...

This is an opportunity for the EU to re-exert itself and to demonstrate that the use of sanctions is genuinely a tool of EU Common Foreign and Security Policy. Strong consideration should be given to expanding the scope of existing EU sanctions on Russia, particularly 'Tier 2' sanctions on individuals and/or ...

One can go even a step further and argue that most of the problems Europe is facing at present have been generated by the EU itself. This is because the Euro was designed in a deficient way, and so was the Schengen system. I am not even talking about the European Common Foreign and Security Policy ...

The better question to ask might be: Is enlargement damaging the European Union? The “wave” ... The second key area to address is the EU's common foreign and security policy, which will create the tools that Europe needs to protect and promote the union's interests on a global scale. Finishing these ...