Strengthening Europe's capacity to act in foreign and security policy: Securitisation cannot solve the EU's decision-making trap

Max Becker, Annegret Bendiek and Ronja Kempin

No 17/2025, SWP Comments from Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), German Institute for International and Security Affairs

Abstract: Since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, a process of securitisation of the European Union's (EU) external action can be observed. From an institutional perspective, the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) increasingly overlaps with the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). However, this does not solve the problem of a lack of capacity to act in foreign and security policy. On the contrary, the trend towards the securitisation of EU foreign policy is a distraction from the long overdue reform of Europe's capacity to act in foreign and security policy. There are two options to finally improve this: a) a Europeanisation of the European pillar in NATO, and b) a communitarisation of the CFSP and CSDP.

Keywords: Common Foreign and Security Policy; CFSP; Common Security and Defence Policy; CSDP; Green Deal Industrial Plan; ReArm Europe; qualified majority voting; securitization; European Peace Facility; EPF; migration agreement; third country agreement; De-risking; Friend-shoring; Global Gateway; GGS; European Defence Agency; EDA; European Defence Fund; EDF; Preparatory Action on Defence Research; PADR; European Defence Industrial Development Programme; EDIDP; Act in Support of Ammunition Production; ASAP; European Defence Industry Reinforcement through common Procurement Act; EDIRPA; EUMAM (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.18449/2025C17

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