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Europe abroad : twenty years after Maastricht, is there anybody there ?
Twenty years after the Treaty of Maastricht created the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), one remains constantly reminded of how out of touch its initial aims were with the means the treaty deployed. Today, the EU needs more than ever to be more effective, concentrating on a small number of external actions related to targeted priorities, and proportionate with available means. This tribune and its title are drawn from the intervention by Sami Andoura made at the conference organized by ISPI and the Representation of the European Commission in Italy – 14 November 2011.
Twenty years after the Treaty of Maastricht created the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), one remains constantly reminded of how out of touch its initial aims were with the means the treaty deployed. Today, the EU needs more than ever to be more effective, concentrating on a small number of external actions related to targeted priorities, and proportionate with available means.
This tribune and its title are drawn from the intervention by Sami Andoura made at the conference organized by ISPI and the Representation of the European Commission in Italy – 14 November 2011, Rome (Spazio Europa) in the specific session on “the EU external service: a missing actor?”.
SUR LE MÊME THÈME
ON THE SAME THEME
PUBLICATIONS
Turbo-charging the EU’s defence industry and security posture
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Promoting peace is not the same as fighting war
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European defence Part 2 : Industries
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MÉDIAS
MEDIAS
Après le vote au Congrès américain, quelle politique européenne pour l’Ukraine ?
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Will the EU get a war budget?
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OTAN-Russie : pourquoi parler de « nouvelle guerre froide » est une dangereuse illusion
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ÉVÉNEMENTS
EVENTS
Euroquestions #67 | European defence in the face of war in Ukraine [FR]
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Académie Notre Europe | Session in Brussels [FR]
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Euroquestions 56 | How can the European Union arm Ukraine?
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Euroquestions #55 | European foreign and defense policy tested by the war in Ukraine [FR]
![](https://institutdelors.eu/wp-content/themes/Avada-Child-Theme/images/evenementbleu.png)
Euroquestions | Franco-German relations: 2023, year of recovery? [FR]
![](https://institutdelors.eu/wp-content/themes/Avada-Child-Theme/images/evenementbleu.png)
Euroquestions | Is war in Ukraine putting cybersecurity at risk in Europe?
![](https://institutdelors.eu/wp-content/themes/Avada-Child-Theme/images/evenementbleu.png)
Euroquestions | War in Ukraine : the European Union’s response, beyond sanctions [FR]
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EUROPEAN DIPLOMACY AND THE UNION’S EXTERNAL ACTION [FR]
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Académie Notre Europe – L’Europe Commerciale et de la Défense
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Copenhagen, 16 September 2019 – Prospects and Challenges in European Security
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Lille, 25 octobre 2018 – Europe of defense in a world of bullies
![](https://institutdelors.eu/wp-content/themes/Avada-Child-Theme/images/evenementbleu.png)
Blois, 12 October 2018 – Cooperation, competition or war? Globalization in all its States
![](https://institutdelors.eu/wp-content/themes/Avada-Child-Theme/images/interventionblanc.png)