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The '''European Security and Defence Policy''' or '''ESDP''' is considered a major element of the [[Common Foreign and Security Policy]] [[three pillars of the European Union|pillar]] of the [[European Union]] (EU). The ESDP was initiated by provisions of the [[Amsterdam Treaty]] which stipulated the progressive framing of a common security and defence policy that could deal with humanitarian and rescue tasks, [[peacekeeping]], taskspeacemaking and tasks of combat forces in [[crisis management]] tasks, includingcalled peacemaking.the These[[Petersberg aretasks]]. When the so-called[[Cologne European Council]] in June [[Petersberg1999]] tasksappointed [[Javier Solana]]. as the High representative of the CFSP they also declared that "the EU must have the capacity for autonomous action, backed up by credible military forces, the means to decide to use them, and a readiness to do so, in order to respond to international crises without prejudice to actions by NATO

==European Security==