Foreign-policy conundrums such as Bosnia have found Europe's common foreign and security policy wanting.
Almost inevitably, she thinks a common foreign and security policy for Europe is long overdue.
ECONOMIST: Emma Bonino, Europe��s commissioner for the future
PESC, to use the French acronym for the common foreign and security policy.
The commission is about to be left on the margins of another new project: the development of a common foreign and security policy.
In moments of hopeful fantasy, they imagine this wonderful machine serving Europe as the strong arm of a perfectly co-ordinated common foreign and security policy.
Since then governments have reserved to themselves, and not to the commission, the early development of a common foreign and security policy for Europe, the Union's new long-term project.
Indeed, one of the arguments for constructing a common foreign and security policy in the European Union is precisely that the European view of world affairs is likely, sometimes, to diverge from the American one.
If the Union's common foreign and security policy could be made to live up to its name better, there would be no harm at times, and possibly some good, in having military means to back it up.
But he or she is expected to chair EU summits, take on some of the functions of the current presidency of the Council of the European Union - held on a rotating six-month basis by EU heads of government - and represent the EU on common foreign and security policy.
Last Thursday, the European Elections Bill received the Royal Assent and, on the same day we re-affirmed and expanded 'constructive opposition' to include co-operation with the government on a Common European Foreign and Security Policy.
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