TGAE: Thinking strategically about the EU’s external action

Twenty years after the Treaty of Maastricht created the Common Foreign and Security Policy, Europeans face the risk of being marginalised on the international scene. The euphoric period following the fall of the Soviet Union – when it seemed obvious that the world would westernise and that politics would become more democratic and economies more liberal – has ended.

The “Think Global – Act European” report is indeed the product of a process of collective thinking, outlining key recommendations for strengthening and increasing the coherence of the EU’s instruments of external action as well as providing the building blocks for new strategic thinking in the ambit of the EU’s external action.