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Since its inception, the EU's foreign policy has been beset by skepticism. Many academics cla... more Since its inception, the EU's foreign policy has been beset by skepticism. Many academics claim that the EU lacks of capacity to have a strong common foreign policy as the decision-making is constraint by the use of intergovernmental framework. However, it is not always the case that the framework of intergovermentalism failed to help the EU to form a common EU's foreign policy. Arguably, the history of EU clearly demonstrated that EU's foreign policy has gradually evolved under intergovernmental framework. In this context, the idea of creating a supranational body in terms of foreign affairs was out of the question. However, despite this rejection of supranationality, fundamentally the use of intergovernmentalism is widely accepted by the international community. In general within the EU institutions supranational and intergovernmental aspects can be observed. Yet in terms of economic and social affairs, the EU institutions take full responsibility in maintaining order....
Since its inception, the EU's foreign policy has been beset by skepticism. Many academics cla... more Since its inception, the EU's foreign policy has been beset by skepticism. Many academics claim that the EU lacks of capacity to have a strong common foreign policy as the decision-making is constraint by the use of intergovernmental framework. However, it is not always the case that the framework of intergovermentalism failed to help the EU to form a common EU's foreign policy. Arguably, the history of EU clearly demonstrated that EU's foreign policy has gradually evolved under intergovernmental framework. In this context, the idea of creating a supranational body in terms of foreign affairs was out of the question. However, despite this rejection of supranationality, fundamentally the use of intergovernmentalism is widely accepted by the international community. In general within the EU institutions supranational and intergovernmental aspects can be observed. Yet in terms of economic and social affairs, the EU institutions take full responsibility in maintaining order....