Vienna – Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee Mr. Miro Kovač, Chairman of the Defence Committee Mr. Igor Dragovan and Deputy Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee Mr. Joško Klisović participated at the two-day Conference for the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy and the Common Security and Defence Policy (CFSP/CSDP), organized within the scope of the Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
The Conference was dedicated to EU’s priorities in the field of CFSP and CSDP, the situation and control at EU borders, the issues of security and migration, the current state of affairs in the countries of the Middle East, the security situation in Syria and the European perspective of the Western Balkans countries. During the Conference workshops were held on the future of the nuclear deal, the military mobility within the Union and projects within the framework of the Permanent Structured Cooperation – PESCO, as well as on the contribution of the OSCE to the East-West dialogue. The participants exchanged views on the current state of the Union, its immediate neighbourhood and control of its borders and welcomed the efforts undertaken so far with regard to calming the situation in and stabilizing EU’s neighbourhood, with particular emphasis on the importance of further strengthening the European defence.
The Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee Kovač spoke about security issues, migration and control of borders and stressed that total monitoring of migration is not possible, pointing out at the necessity to define a common European approach to migration management. In this area, as well as in Southeast Europe, the European Union can and must demonstrate its efficiency and if it fails to do so, it is not eligible to claim the role of a world player, Kovač added.