Strategie bezpieczeństwa Unii Europejskiej

The 2016 faces the adoption of the new security strategy of the European Union – the second in the Union’s history. Although the Common Security and Defence Policy is one of the youngest of the EU policies, its role rapidly intensifi es in the world of growing political and social instability in the EU’s neighbourhood. How does the EU defi ne the threats to its security and is it capable of preventing them? The European Security Strategy of 2003 both describes the threats and recommends the principles that should be implemented in the EU’s policies in order to raise their effectiveness. Thirteen years after the publication of the first security strategy and shortly before the second one is announced it is interesting to check, how much the fi rst strategy inspired the changes in the way of thinking about the European security and the economisation of the European defences. In the article, there are analysed both the political milestones leading to the establishment of the defence policy of the EU and the provisions of the new Global Strategy of the Union. What can be anticipated from the new strategy given the experience with the realisation of the previous one? Does the new security strategy fit well into the reality of the contemporary international relations? Is the new strategy possible to implement?