The European External Action Service can make a difference to EU foreign policy, contributing to building a new strategic culture and designing holistic policies to respond to longstanding challenges to EU foreign policy. This EPC Issue Paper by Rosa Balfour with Alyson Bailes and Megan Kenna argues that the EEAS needs to prove its added value by championing and improving the EU’s cross-cutting foreign policy assets. To do so, the Service must seek to become the EU’s foreign policy entrepreneur and identify the steps necessary to achieve this ambition.
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