The European Union is faced with mounting challenges in both the Eastern and Southern neighborhood. At the beginning of this new institutional cycle, it should, therefore, adjust its foreign policy toolbox to meet the new challenges. In concrete terms this would involve establishing a functional “Relex Cluster” led by the High Representative in the new European Commission, clarifying the division of work and improving coordination between the members of the new EU leadership team, implementing substantial reforms in the context of the review of the European External Action Service scheduled for 2015, elaborating a new foreign policy strategy of the Union and fundamentally renewing of the European Neighborhood Policy.
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