A New Crisis Manager at the Horizon – The Case of the European Union

Leiden Journal of International Law

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 255-263

  Blockmans, Steven ^a  

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Author keywords

common foreign and security policy; crisis management; European Union

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937543308     PISSN: 09221565     EISSN: 14789698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0922156500000194     Document Type: Editorial

References (9)

1. Eurocorps taking on KFOR command in Pristina for six months, Agence Europe, No. 7701 of 19 April 2000. Principles and Guidelines of the EU's Policy towards the Western Balkans, Agence Europe, No. 2150 of 28 July 1999; No. 2156 of 24 September 1999; No. 2180 of 25 March 2000.
2. J. Solana, High Representative of the CFSP of the EU, in his acceptance speech on 10 October 1999, available at http://ue.eu.int/pesc/default.asp?lang=en.
3. SIPRI, SIPRJ Yearbook 1992; Armaments, Disarmament and International Security 417 (1993).
4. For a critical analysis of the progress made at the pre-Amsterdam IGC in modifying the decisionmaking procedures of the EU in the field of CFSP, and of the innovation of the common strategies’ tool, see S. Duke, From Amsterdam to Kosovo: Lessons for a Future CFSP, 2 Eipascope 2-15 (1999).
5. Art. 18, para. 3 TEU. Since he succeeded Jose Cutileiro on 25 November 1999, Solana also holds the position of Secretary-General of the WEU.
6. Art-18, paras. 1 and 2 TEU respectively.
7. Duke, note 7, at 7-8.
8. Treaty of Amsterdam, Declarations adopted by the Conference, Declaration on the Establishment of a Policy Planning and Early Warning Unit, in OJ C 340/132 of 10 November 1997.
9. For further details, see F. Pagani, A New Gear in the CFSP Machinery: Integration of the Petersberg Tasks in the Treaty on European Union, 9 EJIL 737-750 (1998).