Talk:Article 16: Foreign and defence policy

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19) A minimal mechanism for ensuring that member states can be obliged to consider common positions and common actions in respect of world events. In practice, the Union is evolving mechanisms for institutionalising common foreign and common defence policies which are likely to be the subject of future treaty provisions.

20) Thus national governments with, for example, permanent seats on the UN Security Council, cannot be obliged to support the abolition of those seats.

(Original footnotes from "A constitution for the European Union": Oct 26th 2000 The Economist print edition ©2000 The Economist Newspaper Limited. All rights reserved.)