For more information on EPLO's work on the Common Foreign and Security Policy, please contact Giulia Pasquinelli.

Recent Activities

• On 2 May 2012, EPLO published a briefing paper on CFSP structures and instruments after the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty. Please click here to download the document.

• On 21 June 2011, EPLO organised a meeting on Women, Peace and Security in EU Common Security and Defence Policy Missions and Operations. Click here to download the report and final agenda of this Civil Society Dialogue Network event.

• On 16 May 2011, EPLO organised a panel discussion on EU Support for Security Sector Reform. Click here to download the report and final agenda of this Civil Society Dialogue Network event.

• On 9-10 December 2010, EPLO organised a two-day seminar on civil society analysis of EU Common Security and Defence Policy missions. This meeting was attended by approximately 15 participants, mainly representatives of local civil society organisations from areas where CSDP missions are or have been deployed and international civil society organisations. 

• In August 2010, EPLO has published a study on co-operation between civil society organisations and two of the EU's Common Security and Defence Policy missions (EULEX in Kosovo and EUPOL COPPS in the Palestinian Territories). Click here to download EPLO's new publication entitled Accountability and Effectiveness of CSDP Missions: The Role of Civil Society (June 2010).

• On 27 April 2010, EPLO and EPLO member organisations Saferworld, Kvinna till Kvinna and the Kosovar Nansen Dialogue organised a civil society seminar on the draft study on CSDP missions in Pristina.

Recent Publications

• CFSP structures and instruments after the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty (April 2012)

• Accountability and Effectiveness of CSDP Missions: The Role of Civil Society (June 2010)

Older Publications

• Civilian-military integration in the European Security and Defence Policy (March 2009)

• Comments on the contribution of NGOs to the EU Civilian Headline Goal 2008 (June 2007)

• The Lisbon Reform Treaty and its effect on CFSP/CSDP