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The European Union has set itself high and noble foreign policy ambitions. Typically, some of the Treaty provisions in this context are evolutionary and prescriptive, and evolutionary progress is set against a backdrop of great complexity, including dynamic tensions between Member States’ prerogatives and the new central foreign policy actors, and between the institutions involved. However, the Union’s vision has existed since the 2001 Laeken Declaration and a clear collective logic militates in favour of further progress. The EU is in a race to establish and consolidate a strong foreign policy capacity, including a common defence policy, before its relative demographic, economic and political decline undermine its ability to fashion a rapidly changing world according to its values.
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Westlake, M. (2020). Afterword: The European Union’s New Foreign Policy—A Glass Half Full?. In: Westlake, M. (eds) The European Union’s New Foreign Policy. The European Union in International Affairs. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48317-3_16
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