ABSTRACT
With the Lisbon Treaty expectations are growing for the EU to have a more strategic, coherent and effective approach to EU foreign policy. Other chapters (Whitman, etc.) in this book have set out the new innovations following the Lisbon Treaty that are essentially based around a permanent President of the Council, a new upgraded High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, who is at the same time double-hatted as a Vice President of the Commission (i.e. HR/VP), and supported by a new ‘foreign ministry’ known as the European External Action Service (EEAS). The latter brings together the external relations elements of the former Council and Commission services, which helps to pursue a more integrated use of the EU’s external relations instruments and thereby achieve a more coherent approach to key policy areas such as non-proliferation and disarmament.
