ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the on-going debate in the European Union (EU) and the Western European Union (WEU) in relation to these institution's reconceptualisation of security and their processes of adaptation. The analysis will be couched within the framework of the debate over widening and deepening, and whether these processes were necessarily incompatible. The EU acted as a magnet to the central and eastern Europe (CEE) countries, because of its economic strength and the fact that it represented a cohesive community of European states. The WEU also provided a linkage or bridge between the EU and the Atlantic Alliance. In the Declaration which accompanied the Maastricht Treaty, the WEU was stated to represent the European pillar within NATO. Treaty on European Union (TEU), the decision was taken to move beyond European Political Cooperation and create a Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP).
