Common Foreign - Security Policy of Europian Union: Between Imagination and Reality

Abstract

On 18th April 1951. Six sovereign European States: Belgium, France, Deutschland, Italy, Luxembourg and Holland signed a legal document building "European Community for Steel and Coal", what will throughout European Community, become today's European Union (EU). Author analyzes one segment of the EU (Common Foreign And Security Policy, CFSP) and it's newest changes in implementation. He thinks that, after a long period of time, interests of Member States of EU and institutions of EU are going in the way of strengthening the CFSP.New impetus that provides new mechanisms (building of EU military structures, High Representative and his deputy, High Commissioner etc.) set up EU and CFSP in the position were EU finally becomes important player in New World Order. Together with this, he argues and comments problems and reasons of weak CFSP in the past and "strong " CFSP at the present time.