Consolidating the Weimar Triangle : European policy functions of German-Polish-French co-operation

Zusammenfassung: Twenty years have passed since the launch of the Weimar Triangle. Yet apart from anumber of glitzy summits, the German, Polish and French co-operation can hardly beconsidered as having played an influential role in European politics. Nonetheless,trilateral collaboration could certainly take on a number of useful functions in the EU,providing the community with urgently needed capacities such as leadership, consensusbuilding or strategic guidance. In times of crises and turmoil it is certainly thepressing challenges of economic and financial policy where joint Weimar initiativescould be profitable for the EU. But the trio could also play its part in European securityand defence policy, one of the few areas, where the Triangle is beginning to produceresults, or neighbourhood and energy policy, where current strategies are in need ofreassessment. If co-operation between Germany, France and Poland is to become moreconsistent, trilateral consultational structures will have to be strengthened

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Online-Ressource, 8 S.
Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
SWP Comments ; 30/2011

Keyword
Europäische Union
Weimarer Dreieck
Internationale Politik
Multilateralismus
Internationale Kooperation
Regionale Kooperation
Konsultation
Verständigung
Problemlösen
Europäische Integration
Internationale Organisation
Mitwirkung
Deutschland
Polen
Frankreich

Event
Veröffentlichung
(where)
Berlin
(who)
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik
(when)
2011
Creator
Contributor
Schwarzer, Daniela
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik

URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2024020612191807530553
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