Effectiveness of European Union as a Policy Actor in International Relations

Running head: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
International Relations
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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS1
Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
The European Union as a foreign policy....................................................................................2
Effectiveness in European Policy...............................................................................................3
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................6
References..................................................................................................................................8

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS2
Introduction
As described by Wallace, Pollack & Young (2015), European Union is recognised as
a policy actor in the foreign sector as a determinant of the union political and economic
condition of twenty-eight member states that are recorded to be primarily situated in Europe.
The EU and European citizenship are recorded to be debuted in the scenario when the
Maastricht Treaty was debuted in 1993 (Yesilada & Wood, 2015). The EU is known to have
developed its internal singular market with the help of standardised systems persisting to laws
and orders. The same is applicable to all member states connected to the European Union in
matters with the term and condition that the members agree to act as one. The policies of the
EU aims at ensuring the free and smooth movement of people, products, services as well as
the capital within the synergy of the internal singular market EU deals with (Murinde, 2017).
Not only is this, the activities and responsibilities of EU are also recorded as the mounting of
the legislation in the justice and the home affairs as well as the maintenance of the standard
policies of the trade sector, agriculture aspects and also the regional development. In this
connection, the given report focuses on undermining the level of effectiveness of the
European Union as a policy actor in the foreign determinant.
The European Union as a foreign policy
As opined by Nugent (2017), the foreign policy in the ideology of European Union
(EU) has been recognised to be weak as well as underdeveloped as compared to the other
projects the EU deals with. It was examined that the reforms that took place in the Lisbon
Treaty have somehow improved the condition of the foreign policy machine of the European
Union. However, the entire position of the international base of the EU has been recorded to
weaken in the last ten years after the signing of the treaty. The main reason behind the same
was found to be the insufficiency in the leadership management as well as the dysfunctional