The European union's common foreign policy: the role of the commission in an “intergovernmental” process

M. Holland
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ABSTRACT The importance of South Africa's relations with the European Union (EU) is well established. What is perhaps less well understood is the complexity that underlays the foreign policy‐making process within the EU. South Africa's own form of consultation and consensus style of decision‐making, albeit extensive by nation‐state standards, pails when confronted by the multi‐layered process of foreign policy‐making in the EU. The current negotiations between South Africa and the European Union over the “free trade” versus “development and trade” options makes this study of Europe's foreign policy making process both timely and important. To understand the present negotiations it is useful to examine the more recent past, in particular the 1993–4 EU joint action that has been instrumental in shaping contemporary policy. It is more than twenty five years since Henry Kissinger drew attention to what remains an unresolved problem by asking the question – who speaks for Europe in foreign affairs? The establi...
欧盟的共同外交政策:委员会在“政府间”进程中的作用
南非与欧盟关系的重要性是众所周知的。人们可能不太了解的是,欧盟内部外交政策制定过程的复杂性。南非自己的协商和共识式决策形式,尽管以民族国家的标准来看是广泛的,但在面对欧盟外交政策制定的多层次过程时却显得微不足道。目前南非与欧洲联盟之间就“自由贸易”与“发展与贸易”选项进行的谈判使得对欧洲外交政策制定过程的研究既及时又重要。要理解目前的谈判,有必要考察一下更近的过去,特别是1993-4年欧盟的联合行动,它在塑造当代政策方面发挥了重要作用。25年前,亨利•基辛格(Henry Kissinger)提出了一个问题——谁在外交事务中代表欧洲?establi……
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