ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on exaggeration of the role of the High Representative (HR) in the making of foreign policy and defense. Javier Solana role as the High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy (HR) was broad and the position well underfinanced. The position of High Representative was established at the Treaty of Amsterdam in 1997 and the first HR was appointed in 1999 after the European Council meeting of Cologne. The Treaty of Amsterdam, ratified in 1997, marks the creation of the position of High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy. The High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy sits now at the Commission and at the Council, whereas before the Treaty of Lisbon, the HR was only sitting at the Secretariat of the Council. "The momentum for the operations came from the CSDP services rather than from the High Representative herself".
