ABSTRACT
This chapter demonstrates how influential Member States are in fostering or blocking integration of the CSDP. Member States understood the need to reform the EPC in order to adjust European policies to regional and international priorities. In terms of voting procedures, due to the division between Member States on either qualified majority voting or unanimity, the TEU implemented a compromise. The Petersberg tasks underscore the role of the Member States in safeguarding security in humanitarian and rescue operations, peacekeeping operations, combat forces in crisis management like peacemaking, and peace enforcement. The bilateral meeting between London and Paris is relevant as both Member States are the only ones with credible power projection on the European continent. It has been even stronger in the field of defense and security policy as Member States want to remain at the center of the decision-making process, while old and new institutions are trying to increase their power in the process.
