The Article a more Joined-up Union, a Stronger Europe. This article discusses the strenuous development of the EU foreign policy and the internal struggles that the EU delt with. The article starts of discussing how the EU went from being the so called liberal champion to a want to be geo political champion especially through its expansion into eastern Europe with its largest expansion in 2004. Furthermore, the article discusses the challenges that the EU faced during this time period such as the Eurozone crisis and the calamity of Brexit though arguably this actually strengthened the EU as highlighted in the article where EU strategy papers discuss the need to focus on the assets of each EU member state. On to the aspirations of the EU foreign policy as aspirational as they are they are in fact extremely aspirational an example of this would be the Iran nuclear which the United States of American unilaterally left in 201. Henceforth another example would be the EU attempts at brokering deals between both Serbia and Kosovo despite the fact that not every EU member state recognises Kosovo. The article then further explains that while the EU does have geo political aspirations it needs to realise the limits of its own ability and recognise itself as an autonomous power and not a geo political power