ns to be stated and diplomatic negotiations and political dialogue to be engaged in.
             4. Improved implementation requires that financing from the Community budget become the rule.
             5. In the long term the CFSP should be communitized.
             6. Financing of common actions by the Community budget.
             7. The possibility of an ad hoc coalition for common actions and their implementation, based on consensus on the value of such action, if not all Members want to take part. However, all members should help to finance such action.
             8. Gradual integration of the WEU (Western European Union) and the EU institutionally and politically. The IGC should prepare the ground for full integration.
             9. Direct control of the WEU planning unit by the EU. Forces attributed to the WEU should be made available to the EU.
             10. Reciprocal security guarantees as a factor in the common defense policy, although NATO should retain practical powers.
             11. Unanimous decisions on defense policy.
             12. Application of the European Parliament's rights and powers concerning the CFSP ( consultation, information, and financing). Increase in the role of the national parliaments and cooperation between them and the European Parliament.
             13. Retention of the intergovernmental framework of the CFSP for the time being (for reasons of political realism) while seeking solutions that link Community factors to an intergovernmental approach.
             The CFSP of the European Union (EU) has often been overlooked and sometimes even ridiculed in studies of European integration. Until recently, it was not unusua
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