ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses empirical developments in the EU Foreign Policy (EUFP) and Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) institutions not least with the newly established European External Action Service (EEAS) in operation have forced a number of scholars to think more and again about the analytical, conceptual and theoretical underpinnings of the EUFP and CFSP research area. Although the Treaty of Rome and the Treaty of Paris did not mention foreign policy, some form of foreign policy cooperation followed nonetheless. To analyse the Commission's role in the EUFP and CFSP via a historical investigation of the delegation of powers to the Commision such as foreign policy, Dijskra assesses the three chosen delegation modes. The reports from Luxemburg, Copenhagen and London laid down the grounds for future foreign policy cooperation and institutionalisation between the Western European states. The initial theoretical efforts were made at the time of the reports on European foreign policy coordination in the 1970s.
