Neutrality
Neutrality in Europe
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Description of Neutrality
The Concise Publication of the European Union describes neutrality in the following terms: [1] Neutrality, although carefully defined by the 1907 Hague Convention, has proved a conveniently elastic concept in the context of the EU. Austria, Finland,Sweden and Switzerland are all neutral countries, some by constitution, others by tradition. Yet after the Cold War each felt able to apply for membership of the EU and none was rejected by the Commission or by the other member states, despite the Maastricht Treaty's vision of a Common Foreign and Security Policy 'including the eventual framing of a common defence policy, which might in time lead to a common defence'. Ireland, too, had pretensions to neutrality (like the others it was not a NATO member), but had joined the Community in 1973. Although subtle minds are currently at work redefining neutrality, it is evident that the status is in reality incompatible with the EU's desire to assert itself more in the military sphere (see more in this European publication). (See also WEU.)
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Based on the book "A Concise Publication of the European Union from Aachen to Zollverein", by Rodney Leach (Profile Books; London)
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