...the CFSP "shall include all questions related to the security of the Union, including the eventual framing of a common defence policy, which might lead to a common defence" (Article J.4). On the WEU the text sees this as "an integral part of the development of the...

...might in turn lead to a common defence.' The new Treaty modified that phrase to read 'including the progressive framing of a common defence policy... which might lead to a common defence, should the European Council so decide' (emphasis added). This represents a hesitant step back,...

...17) that the CFSP 'shall include all questions relating to the security of the Union, including the progressive framing of a common defence policy, which might lead to a common defence, should the European Council so decide...' It also agreed that the Union shall foster closer...

...and security policy shall include all questions related to the security of the Union, including the progressive framing of a common defence policy, [...] which might lead to a common defence [...]". 3.3.3 PRESERVING PEACE AND STRENGTHENING INTERNATIONAL SECURITY In 1950 Kelsen observed...

...scene, in particular through the implementation of a common foreign and security policy including the progressive framing of a common defence policy, which might lead to a common defence; to strengthen the protection of the rights and interests of the nationals of its Member States...

...Article 2 TEU provides that the implementation of a common foreign and security policy "includ[es] the progressive framing of a common defence policy, which might lead to a common defence". The especially careful wording of this provision makes it clear that the common defence of...

...this Treaty provides (i) for the implementation of a common foreign and security policy including the progressive framing of a common defence policy, which might lead to a common defence, and (ii) for the maintaining and developing of the Union as an area of freedom, security and...

...ensuring that the CFSP included 'all questions relating to the security of the Union, including the progressive framing of a common defence policy, which might lead to a common defence, should the European Council so decide'. In that event, member states would adopt a decision...

...1991 and resonated in Art. 17 of the Amsterdam Treaty in 1997. This Article, which explicitly states 'progressive framing of a common defence policy ... which might lead to a common defence', implies that the EU with a CDP and CD retains - particularly in the latter - a potential...

...scene, in particular through the implementation of a common foreign and security policy including the progressive framing of a common defence policy, which might lead to a common defence, in accordance with the provisions of Article 17; - to strengthen the protection of rights...