Abstract

The EU security policy is an inseparable part of the EU Common Security and Defence Policy elaborated within the EU Common Foreign and Security Policy. Sucurity and defence issues are quite vulnerable for any state sovereignty that is why it took Member Statets rather long time to agree on principles, directions and priorities of their common security policy as well as on cooperation with the NATO. With the development of the European Community, in the sphere of security policy a number of structures were established and a number of principled documents were adopted. The article researches the evolution of the EU security policy influenced by external cgallenges and threats

Highlights

  • In the modern globalized world the European Union faces serious challenges that question the very existence of the Union

  • We consider it necessary to offer a historical retrospection of the EU security policy evolution

  • In his Pan-Europa, 1923, underlining the League of Nations weakness in conflicts prevention and conflicts solution, he stressed on the necessity for the states of Europe to unite in order to avoid being conquered by the USSR or bought by the USA [9]

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Natalia Karpchuk

Sucurity and defence issues are quite vulnerable for any state sovereignty that is why it took Member Statets rather long time to agree on principles, directions and priorities of their common security policy as well as on cooperation with the NATO. The sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of states, the inviolability of borders and the peaceful settlement of disputes are key elements of the European security order. The European Army was supposed to be composed of military units from the member states, and direct Despite the central role for France, the French Assembly refused to ratify the Treaty as it feared the loss of national sovereignty in security and defense. In 1999 these tasks were integrated in the Treaty of Amsterdam and the post of the High Representative for Common Foreign and Security

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