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In many ways, it is easier to talk about where the European Union (EU)’s Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) will be in 2010 than where it is today. At present, it is easy to criticize the EU for having made too little progress in the ten-plus years since it agreed at Maastricht in December 1991 to take on the challenge of developing a more robust political and security identity. At the time, many EU leaders felt that with the end of the Cold War, they could advance efforts at foreign policy cooperation to a level similar to that of their single market economic cooperation. The Maastricht decision coincided with
the dissolution of Yugoslavia, a thorny issue for the EU to address and one that required many years—and many lives lost—before a common approach could be forged.
While this new approach to key foreign policy issues has been somewhat slow in developing, it has become increasingly clear to the United States and to other international partners of the EU that something interesting is unfolding. The precise outline and impact of continuing European integration in the area of foreign and security policy is still not clear to us, but that is not surprising, as none of this is necessarily clear to Europeans themselves at this point. But already the United States is devoting increasing resources and attention to working with the EU on issues within the CFSP.
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