Traveling at the “speed of light”? Challenges for the European Common Foreign and Security Policy

Summary:

In 2000, then High Representative, Javier Solana, spoke of a European Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) that was progressing at the “speed of light”. What caused him to say so, was the newly established “European Security and Defence Policy” (ESDP), that in his opinion, would boost the EU ́s capacity for dealing successfully with conflicts and threats inside and outside Europe.