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Enhancing the Effectiveness of the EU’s Foreign and Defence Policies. CEPS Policy Brief No. 29, December 2002

Menon, Anand. (2002) Enhancing the Effectiveness of the EU’s Foreign and Defence Policies. CEPS Policy Brief No. 29, December 2002. [Policy Paper]

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    [Executive Summary]. The following report discusses ways of enhancing the EU’s effectiveness and impact as an international actor in the light of debates currently taking place within the Convention. Its central recommendations can be briefly summarised: 1. Clarify and discard the more extreme variants of arguments pressing for a significant EU military capability. 2. Create a Commissioner for External Affairs to whom other Commissioners responsible for discreet aspects of this portfolio would report. 3. Recreate the Political Committee, composed of Political Directors. 4. Create a Council of Defence Ministers. 5. Reinforce the role of the High Representative in several ways: increase the financial resources at his/her disposal; allow him/her to chair the COPS. 6. Create an EU Security Council comprising the HR, the Secretary General of t the Council, the Commissioner for External Relations, the Presidency (in order to ensure coherence with EU internal action), the chief of the EU military staff and senior representatives from the troika.

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    Item Type: Policy Paper
    Subjects for non-EU documents: EU policies and themes > External relations > common foreign & security policy 1993--European Global Strategy
    Subjects for EU documents: UNSPECIFIED
    EU Series and Periodicals: UNSPECIFIED
    EU Annual Reports: UNSPECIFIED
    Series: Series > Centre for European Policy Studies (Brussels) > CEPS Policy Briefs
    Depositing User: Phil Wilkin
    Official EU Document: No
    Language: English
    Date Deposited: 21 Oct 2004
    Page Range: p. 11
    Last Modified: 15 Feb 2011 17:20
    URI: http://aei.pitt.edu/id/eprint/1982

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