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The implementation of common foreign and security policy is the mosteffective way for more active, coherent and, not at least, unified EuropeanUnion on the international stage. Definition of legal instruments of the Union and its political flexibility of institutions provides the means of effectivelysolving of problems it faces. Keywords: European Union; Common Foreign and Security Policy;regulations; directive; decision; recommendation; opinion.

Argues that operational and institutional weaknesses of the European Union's Common Foreign and Security Policy cause the CFSP to have only limited influence on EU-US relations in the areas of defense, economics, and the spread of Western institutions into Eastern and Southern Europe.

At the European Council summit in June 2007 the heads of state and government agreed to create the office of a High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and an External Action Service. Yet, at the same time several of the 23 footnotes of the Presidency Conclusion stressed that neither the responsibilities of the member states for their foreign policy nor of their national representation in third countries and international organisations shall be affected in the future. Pro-integrationists like Luxemburg and Italy criticised the outcome of the summit since it does not foresee to transfer further foreign and security policy competences to the EU-level