Conditions for a European intervention strategy in application of the ESDP and US,Nato crisis management

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Since the "Petersberg Tasks" for the "Western European Union" were adopted by the WEU council of foreign ministers in 1992, Europe has embarked on forays into the wide field of "hard security". The Petersberg decisions were a first step towards European participation in international peace support with military means, especially "tasks of combat forces in crisis management, including peace-making", as the decision read