EU Foreign Policy and National Foreign Policy

EU and member states’ national foreign policies are interconnected and mutually influencing. EU foreign policy is not only developed within and across the CFSP/CSDP, the EU’s external action and external dimension of internal policies, but also through interaction with the foreign policies of member states (see Chapter 1). National foreign policy actors also play an important and varying role in the EU’s policymaking methods (see Chapters 3 and 4). Hence, to understand EU foreign policy, national foreign policies and national foreign policy actors must be examined too.