The aim of the article is to examine non-treaty mechanisms for the development of the Common Security and Defence Policy. The author puts forward a thesis that two mechanisms were responsible for this advancement. Firstly, it was the differentiated integration, or the avant-garde of some countries, which initiated the progress of the policy discussed. Secondly, it was the competence creep of the European Commission and the European Court of Justice.
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