THE ROMANIAN CONTRIBUTION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CSDP IN THE CONTEXT OF THE EU INTERESTS’ PROJECTION ON THE INTERNATIONAL SCENE
THE ROMANIAN CONTRIBUTION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CSDP IN THE CONTEXT OF THE EU INTERESTS’ PROJECTION ON THE INTERNATIONAL SCENE

Summary/Abstract: Defining a general European interest has become a must for the European Union, starting in this way the reflection process on building a common belonging feeling, and on the political agreement that would be capable to unify citizens and European institutions as well. The recent history showed an undeniable liaison between the evolution of international security crisis and the European cooperation in the defense field (the Balkan crisis in the ΄90s or the Georgian crisis in 2008). Nevertheless, the absence or the incomplete character of the EU definitions of strategic and security interests may have some noxious effects upon the manner in which the Union would like to be perceived on the international scene. The practice of defining the interests on a case by case basis or through opportunity speeches founded on the promotion of European values, does not help the European Union to impose its role as a major actor on the international security scene. Moreover, EU displays its role under a form which is extremely complex and seldom perfectly comprehensible, from a unitary perspective.

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