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This paper investigates how France’s foreign policy is practised towards Central and Eastern Europe region and analysis French political visions of relations with the region, their determinants and consequences for Europe. Central and Eastern Europe is not the main axis of the European policy of the French Republic. The difficulties that France had with adapting its policy towards the region after the end of the Cold War have had consequences in a broader context to this day (for the development of the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union, cooperation with Germany and relations with the United States and Russia). This chapter uncovers motivations, changes and regional institutions that drive French foreign policy in Central and Eastern Europe.
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France returned to the integrated NATO command structure in 2009 during the jubilee summit of the Alliance in Strasburg and Kehl, which was in line with the policy of the so-called breaks (la rupture) with the Gaullist vision of defense policy, when the Republic left this structure in 1966. Attempts to change this state of affairs were also carried out by President Jacques Chirac, who decided in 1995 to involve the French minister of defense in the deliberations NATO Military Committee.
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Drygiel-Bielińska, M. (2023). Central and Eastern Europe in France’s Foreign Policy. In: Zięba, R. (eds) Politics and Security of Central and Eastern Europe. Contributions to Political Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16419-4_16
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