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Email this citationCIAO DATE: 02/03
Bigger EU, Wider CFSP, Stronger ESDP?
Antonio Missiroli
Occasional Paper 34
April 2002
Last spring, the research team of the then WEU Institute for Security Studies came up with the idea of carrying out a targeted screening of the prevailing (and evolving) views on CFSP and ESDP in the candidate countries. In order to preserve some homogeneity and compara-bility, the screening would be limited to the ten Central European applicants. In fact, the Mediterranean candidates (Cyprus and Malta, let alone Turkey) pose completely different problems, while the whole exercise was intended to try and assess what CFSP/ESDP means to the part of Europe that was ‘kidnapped’ for almost half a century — according to Milan Kundera’s well-known metaphor from the 1980s — and is now about to ‘return’ where it belongs. In a way, however, the project was also intended to try and assess what such a ‘return’ might mean for CFSP/ESDP, and how the two processes would interact and dovetail.
Accordingly, a grid with five main clusters of questions was handed out to the potential authors in order to structure their contributions, answer a series of topical questions and allow an overall as well as a comparative assessment. The clusters were the following:
