The OSCE is in crisis. There can be no doubt but that the OSCE today, as compared to its heyday during the Cold War and in the mid-1990s, is a far less visible landmark on the European institutional landscape than was formerly the case. This Chaillot Paper seeks to take stock for an EU audience...

All three Central European candidates for EU membership have gone through an evolutionary (and learning) process as regards the development of ESDP: from scepticism and worry - that it could undermine NATO - to qualified acceptance and more direct involvement. This evolution can be explained...