Castles in the Sand: Mali and the demise of the EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy
Castles in the Sand: Mali and the demise of the EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy

Author(s): Giovanni Faleg
Subject(s): Geopolitics, Peace and Conflict Studies, Asylum, Refugees, Migration as Policy-fields
Published by: CEPS Centre for European Policy Studies
Keywords: EU and Africa; France and Mali;
Summary/Abstract: France’s solitary intervention in Mali and the EU’s absence there – in an area no less strategicthan the Maghreb – raises two questions of prime importance for the future of the EU’ssupposedly ‘Common’ Security and Defence Policy. The first has to do with the crisis itself,its nature and the threat posed by the terrorist groups and militias that are being counteredby French armed forces. The second concerns the causes and implications of yet anotherexample of the EU’s inability to take responsibility for security matters in its neighbourhoodand beyond. How did this happen and can things get any worse?

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