\tAntonio Missiroli, director of studies in the Brussels-based European Policy Centre (EPC) presented a lecture on the European Security Strategy (ESS), observed six years later, in a changed international context. The issue has, however, served only as a point of departure for further discussion of EU\u2019s role in the world today. Mr. Missiroli's lecture was organised within the educational project “School for European Security”.<\/p>\n
\tCentre\u2019s guest began by analysing threats to European security, after which he recognized \u201ceffective multilateralism\u201d as EU\u2019s mean of response to them. Missiroli said how the document does not represent a strategy proper, rather a foreign policy doctrine. He sees as positive the fact that document does not stipulate any deadlines. ESS makes far more than a \u201cleast common denominator\u201d of European security, but is not \u201cprescriptive\u201d, as he put it. His next concern was the ongoing process of reviewing ESS, heavily influenced by the recent events in Georgia.<\/p>\n
\tIn the focus of this review process stands Iran. The debate on the \u201cdivision of labour\u201d between ESDP and NATO in multinational peace support operations is still on as well. Also, there is an ongoing effort to distinct\u00a0state failure<\/i>\u00a0from\u00a0state fragility,\u00a0<\/i>so as to emphasize the fact that countries aided by the EU have not \u201efailed\u201c, but are politically unstable to a point of great risk of failure.<\/p>\n
\tThe development of capacities in the field of defence has stalled: military component of ESDP has lost a lot of its significance, while it is the civil component becoming more prominent. Reasons for this are, first, civilian missions are financed by the European Commission, not member states alone, and second, the risk of coping with casualties in the aftermath stands significantly lower.<\/p>\n
\tFinishing his presentation, Missiroli claimed how EU had lost with Czech presidency, everything it has won in the final months of Bush administration. Now Obama is expected to, after the financial stimulus, offer a \u201cpolitical one\u201d as well.<\/p>\n
\tQuestions followed Missiroli\u2019s presentation. Sonja Stojanovi\u0107 asked whether it is possible to expect a more coherent foreign policy of the EU. Then, she asked to which extent is Western Balkans \u201evisible\u201d in Brussels agenda. Missiroli emphasized how important it is to press on with establishing External Action Service that should become active in the first half of 2010. Still, he said how it is far more realistic to expect a sort of \u201ccase by case\u201d coherence where one should realise that this is not only EU\u2019s, but other actors fault as well.<\/p>\n
\tAnswering the question of Turkey\u2019s eventual accession, he said how \u201ethere is little appetite in Brussels for that\u201c, and that new approaches are being considered, where so-called \u201cprivileged partnership\u201d stands as one of the alternatives to full membership (if such alternative is even conceivable).<\/p>\n
\tThe debate ensued, which concessions must EU make in order to counter so-called BRIC (Brazil, Russia, China, India) as countries becoming more assertive in international politics. Speaking on China, Missiroli believes how concessions should be sought for in the field of trade. As for Russia, it is difficult to imagine a single issue more divisive, regarding the points of view in European capitals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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