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financial crisis in the eurozone on defence budgets across the EU, and the turf battles that have surrounded the implementation of the Lisbon Treaty, seem to have put the brakes on the development of the CSDP and have lowered expectations about what the EU can deliver in the field of foreign and security policy once again. It might still take a few years before the new instruments established by the Lisbon Treaty
the eurozone crisis – have detracted attention and resources from learning processes in the CSDP and led to an impasse in the institutionalisation of lessons learned, which might take years to resume. Notes 1 Author’s interview, Sarajevo, 17 March 2005