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The '''European Security Strategy''' is the document in which the [[European Union]] clarifies its security strategy which is aimed at achieving a secure Europe in a better world, identifying the threats facing the Union, defining its strategic objectives and setting out the political implications for Europe.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.consilium.europa.eu/showPage.aspx?id=266&lang=en |title="European security strategy", SCADPLUS, September 4, 2006 |access-date=May 29, 2010 |archive-date=January 6, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150106020934/http://www.consilium.europa.eu/showPage.aspx?id=266&lang=en |url-status=dead }}</ref> The European security strategy was drawn up in 2003 under the authority of the EU's [[High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy]], [[Javier Solana]], and adopted by the Brussels European Council of 12 and 13 December 2003.

The strategy was replaced in 2016 by the [[European Union Global Strategy]].

==The Venusberg Group==
The Venusberg Group has produced three reports related to the development of the European Security Strategy.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.eliamep.gr/en/event/venusberg-group-beyond-2010-%E2%80%93-european-strategy-in-a-global-age/ |title = Venusberg Group: Beyond 2010 – European Strategy in a Global Age : ΕΛΙΑΜΕΠ}}</ref>  
They are:
# Enhancing the European Union as an International Security Actor (2000)
# A European Defence Strategy (2004)
# Beyond 2010 – European Grand Strategy in a Global Age (2008) 

==See also==
*[[Common Foreign and Security Policy]]
*''[[European Security]]'' (journal)
*[[European Union Institute for Security Studies]]
*[[History of the Common Security and Defence Policy]]
*[[Strategic Compass for Security and Defence]]

==References==
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