CRISIS MANAGEMENT MISSIONS OF THE EU IN THE WESTERN BALKANS: TEST OF THE MATURITY AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF ESDP

Abstract

Here comes the great question of the sight of the learned and applied lectures extracted from the experience of the EU in crisis management in the Western Balkans. At the level of mandates, was registered problem of the logical sequencing of activities. Related to coordination between civilian and military instruments, the mandates of the police missions were refocused. The role of the Special Representative of the EU tend to be coordinative, while cooperation between the ESDP missions and the Delegation of the Commission is quite good. Organizational processes and refinement in the Community were not always coordinated with those conducted by second pillar. Police missions had underlined one other experience from the civilian ESDP operations: the need for the presence of police advisors from the EU on the field together with the local police and possession of an actual depiction of the situation. Comprehensive civilian crisis management mission with it’s wide mandate based on the preceding operational experience from other ESDP missions shows that a clear distinction between the police and judicial affairs is impossible. In the shaping of the system of crisis management in the European Union, by the need for greater coordination of the instruments, the application of trained personnel and more effective procedure for supply-were marked as a serious problem by the Commission and the Council. The positive experience of the joint Council and Commission finding facts mission that is to be sent on the field before the main mission scheduling, was later translated into operational instruments. As mentioned previously, the preparation and the conduct of comprehensive rule of law civilian operations, it denotes the change of the velocity of ESDP. It is quite justified asking the question of given pace in future ESDP missions to be prove as sustainable, either in terms of the supply and support of the mission, demands for personal or planning and conducting.