ABSTRACT
This chapter considers more broadly the nature of the relationship between European Foreign and Security Policy and national foreign policies. It focuses upon the impact of European Foreign and Security Policy on national foreign policy, both in terms of policy process and policy outputs. Practitioners and experts also sustain the argument that minor states have gained considerably from European Foreign and Security Policy but are also willing to highlight constraints which are, in their view, necessary corollaries of this process. For most practitioners, the key issue explaining the limited capacity of European Foreign and Security Policy is a lack of political will to dedicate further resources to collective agreement and action. Moreover, both Danish and Dutch policy makers have been especially sensitive to the development of a European security identity. Finally, the chapter underlines the fact that European Foreign and Security Policy is a process to which its own participants are committed and supportive.
