Europe's Security and Defence Policy

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This paper focuses on the development of a collective defence and security policy within the European Union (EU). It gives the example of the EU's role in the Balkans conflict as the continuing development of this policy. The paper also looks at some of the procedural elements in creating such a policy.

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"By the 1970s, a foreign policy mechanism entitled European Political Co-operation had been established, in recognition of the fact that there was an external dimension to trade cooperation and that EC members needed to coordinate their voice in international affairs. Meanwhile, a protocol of agreement among the Member States to establish an organisation of European Political Co-operation (EPC) was conceived. In 1986, the Single European Act (Title?V, Article 30, (6), (a)) formalized this intergovernmental cooperation without changing its nature or methods of operation. Therefore, the forging of a CFSP in the 1990s was able to build upon the foundations that had been laid before in EPC. "

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