From Amsterdam to Rome: EU external representation in the CFSP

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The Draft Treaty establishing the Constitution for Europe introduces some significant changes in the institutional setting of the European Union; the present study focuses on reforms made by this text in the EU system of external representation, particularly in the area of the Common Foreign and Security Policy. Although the Amsterdam Treaty has also been a attempt to reform only a few years ago, the provisions of the Constitution are more substantial and significant, with the idea of the Union Minister for Foreign Affairs as a main voice of the EU. This analysis investigates the reasons behind the institutional reform of the external representation of the European Union by analysing the still functioning setting resulting from the Treaty of Amsterdam. It is argued that the dissatisfactory performance of these arrangements, along with the evolving role and substance of the EU and CFSP, has led to rethinking and redefining the purposes and values underlying the idea of the external representation. The institutional learning approach serves as a theoretical basis to this explanation of the case, suggesting that the refor...