The forthcoming EU Global Strategy on foreign and security policy was the
main topic of separate meetings Federica Mogherini held in Brussels today (3
March) with the Conference of Presidents of the European Parliament and with
the plenary assembly of the Commission of the European Catholic Bishops'
Conferences (COMECE).
The meetings with the leaders of political groups at the European
Parliament and with Catholic bishops came a day after the European Commission
also discussed the on-going work on the Strategy.
The new EU Global Strategy – which the High Representative will present to
the European Council in June – will set out a vision for the EU as a player
that contributes to global peace and security. The Strategy will focus on the
European Union's goals and on the tools to pursue them: it should contribute to
making full use of the Union's potential as a global security provider.
The Global Strategy is being developed in close cooperation with EU
countries, all EU Institutions and the broader foreign policy community –
namely think-tanks and academia – to help foster a truly European debate on the
Union's foreign policy. In this sense "the process is as important as the
outcome," as Federica Mogherini has frequently stressed.
The new Global Strategy will update and replace the European Security
Strategy of 2003 drawn up under Javier Solana's guidance. In June 2015 EU
leaders asked Federica Mogherini in her role as High
Representative/Vice-President to prepare an "EU Global Strategy on Foreign
and Security Policy" to guide the Union's global actions in the future.
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