ABSTRACT
This chapter refers to personal bindings of citizens with EU security and defence, which can help them realise the significance of the policy. It develops a normative scenario allowing some basic civic engagement with the policy for the sake of bringing EU citizens closer to it, also investigating whether more democracy in Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) governance can actually result in more European integration. Public diplomacy is an instrument that governments use to mobilize these resources to communicate with and attract the publics of other countries, rather than merely their governments. The brief scrutinisation of public statements of EU high-ranking officials has revealed a non-systematic and confusing transmission of messages towards the EU citizenry. By maintaining policy dissemination under restrictions, they minimise any potential public debate that would question the choices of political leadership, hence overly exerting governmental power upon the governing ones.
