Example sentences of "common foreign [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Europe 's obsession with clearing a path to a common foreign and defence policy risks doing just that . |
| 2 | In principle , and in theory , it may be appealing to believe that we can all unite and go along together with common defence and foreign policies , but the reality — and after the Gulf war , I must say , the experience , too , to some extent — suggests that we have not yet developed the degree of cohesion and common purpose that must must be a prerequisite for common foreign and defence policies . |
| 3 | I hope that we shall make progress , along the cautious lines suggested by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister this afternoon , on a common foreign and defence policy . |
| 4 | Proposals for common foreign and defence policies |
| 5 | Discussions during February within the context of the intergovernmental conference ( IGC ) on political union of the European Communities ( EC ) centred on the question of a common foreign and defence policy . |
| 6 | The two others — a common foreign and defence policy , and police and judicial co-operation — would be decided by meetings of relevant EC government ministers and thus remain outside the EC decision-making machinery . |
| 7 | Euro-hopefuls argue that if Europe had already been committed to a common foreign and security policy , its military contribution in the Gulf would have been swifter and more effective . |
| 8 | The Franco-German joint statement speaks of democratic legitimation of the union , making Europe 's institutions more efficient , ensuring unity and coherence in every sphere and implementing a common foreign and security policy . |
| 9 | Also included were proposals for the development of a common foreign and security policy and , ultimately , common defence . |
| 10 | The provisions relating to Economic and Monetary Union take the form of amendments to the EEC Treaty and therefore form an integral part of Community law ( even if one might have doubts as to the likelihood of the factual events which would trigger the final stage ) ; on the other hand , in the context of the provisions relating to political Union , a distinction was made between those matters which constituted amendments to the existing Community treaties , and those which fell outside the scope of the Communities , notably the provisions on a Common foreign and Security policy and those on co-operation in the fields of Justice and Home Affairs . |
| 11 | Title V provides for a Common Foreign and Security policy . |
| 12 | The provisions for a common foreign and security policy come in Title V of the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 13 | Article J.1 of that Title declares : ‘ The Union and its Member States shall define and implement a common foreign and security policy , governed by the provisions of this Title and covering all areas of foreign and security policy . ’ |
| 14 | And Article J.4 says : ‘ The common foreign and security policy shall include all questions related to the security of the Union , including the eventual framing of a common defence policy . ’ |
| 15 | Lest there be any doubts about this , consider the Maastricht Declaration on Voting in the Field of the Common Foreign and Security Policy : ‘ The Conference agrees that , with regard to Council decisions requiring unanimity , Member States will , to the extent possible , avoid preventing a unanimous decision where a qualified majority exists in favour of that decision . ’ |
| 16 | Finally : ‘ The Commission shall be fully associated with the work carried out in the common foreign and security field ’ ( Article J.9 ) . |
| 17 | Title V of the Maastricht Treaty stipulates that the Common Foreign and Security policy ‘ shall respect the obligations of certain Member States under the North Atlantic Treaty ’ ; but this does not explain why a new structure is necessary at all . |
| 18 | A European Common Foreign and Security policy is thus unrelated to any military assessment of Europe 's defence needs . |
| 19 | Peter Schmidt of the Stiftung Wissenschaft Politik at Ebenhausen , a leading expert on European defence and security issues , has identified the formulation of a Common Foreign and Security policy as the product of a ‘ top-down approach ’ which ‘ regards the political union of Western Europe within the framework of the EC as an end in itself ’ , rather than of a ‘ functional or horizontal approach ’ which ‘ asks in a practical way which defence functions can and should be handled in a Western European framework , which ones can remain attached to existing defence arrangements — above all that means Nato — and which ones can stay at the disposal of nation states ’ . |
| 20 | In assessing the likely effectiveness of the Common Foreign and Security policy , it is important to look at the examples of joint European Community foreign-policy ventures to date . |
| 21 | There can be little doubt that under the terms of the Common Foreign and Security policy , there would have been no European response to Saddam Hussein 's aggression . |
| 22 | The EEC 's response to the disintegration of Yugoslavia is an equally important indication of what might be expected from the Common Foreign and Security policy . |
| 23 | Given this reality , a Common Foreign and Security policy can only be expected to reflect the lowest common denominator , the position which least offends . |
| 24 | The history of the European Fighter Aircraft project is in many ways a microcosm of the proposed Common Foreign and Security policy . |
| 25 | Any European Common Foreign and Security policy which includes Swedish and other neutral interests must be less effective even than that which can be expected to emerge from the current unsatisfactory record of EEC action in foreign affairs . |
| 26 | What the Common Foreign and Security policy represents is not a realistic and objective response to Europe 's security needs , but the establishment of a unified European foreign policy in principle because it is felt that the European Union , as an ‘ independent ’ entity , ought to be served by such a policy . |
| 27 | Just as in their trade policy the Federalists are prepared to sacrifice the Member States ' economic prosperity for the political goal of a United Europe , so does the establishment of a Common Foreign and Security policy sacrifice their military and strategic needs to that same political end . |
| 28 | As does the whole concept of the Common Foreign and Security policy , they represent a way of thinking which sees military capability as relatively unimportant beside the dream of a powerful and independent European Union , speaking with one voice and free from American interference . |
| 29 | In their view , the EC must be endowed with the ability to formulate and carry out a common foreign and security policy , particularly vis-a-vis the East and Central European countries ; the lack of such a policy has unfortunately prevented effective EC action in the former Yugoslavia . |
| 30 | We welcome the agreement reached at Maastricht on a common foreign and security policy . |