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The European Union member states decided to establish the European Security and Defence Policy in 1999. Soonafterwards, the processes of appointing adequate tools for its accomplishment started. Discussions were conducted and decisionswere made to create organs and institutions and to elaborate appropriate crisis management procedures which would enable fastand precise decision‑makingfor planning and conduct in the field of security and defence. Since that time the European Unionand its crisis management capacities had evolved in all fields. Nowadays, security scientists exert attempts to provide an answerto an important problem: in which direction the Common Security and Defence Policy is now progressing. The author, basing onhis experiences of work in politico‑strategicplanning structures of the European External Action Service and conducted research,concisely presented tendencies in the European Union’s Common Security and Defence Policy, among others with regard to evolutionof the Union’s organs and institutions, evolution of the crisis management procedures, assumptions and implementationof the comprehensive approach and characters of the newly‑deployedmissions. This material is a result of research conductedwithin an international and interinstitutional crisis management environment. It is based on conversations and interviews withsubject‑relatedpersonnel and the listed bibliography.