Will Sleeping Beauty Wake up? Proposals for a New EU Global Strategy on CFDP

Abstract

In 2015, the European Union (EU) published a strategic Review called The European Union in a Changing Global Environment. A more connected, contested and complex World and called for contributions. Since 2003 the EU has not adapted its foreign policy and the world has changed in important ways. This chapter is meant as a wake-up call. It analyses the “Strategic Review” and offers proposals for a legitimate and realistic EU vision on foreign affairs, for ways to organise foreign affairs at the EU level, and how priorities could be set in a truly global and integrated Common Foreign and Defence Policy (CFDP) strategy. Taken together, these provide elements on which a new and effective EU global foreign and defence strategy can be based.