ABSTRACT
The EU and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) are key multilateral players, whose contribution to security and stability in wider Europe is difficult to overestimate. Their relationship, which traces back to the origins of the 1975 Helsinki Final Act, has had a long history and has been a mixture of positive synergies and unfulfilled promises (Bailes, Haine and Lachowski, 2008).
