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Foreign and External Security Policy
The EU has two interrelated policies to deal with foreign and external security matters: the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). Despite the national sensitivities associated with foreign and external security policies, a number of factors have resulted in an EU policy system based on intensive transgovernmentalism coming to be established in these areas (Giegerich and Wallace, 2010).