In the aftennath of the Bosnian and Kosova tragedies, theEuropean public opinion has criticised European governments fornot preventing ethnic conflİcts in the continent and indeed thepublic opinion has been right in its judgement. Europe has be enperceived as incapable of making any headway on the problemsuntil the VS and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)decided to intervene to the recent tragedies Iived at the end of the1990s. The political wiII was lacking, but alsa the structure toprevent conflİcts. The resulting situation raised the question of theneed to set up a new comprehensive security and defence systemthat wiII give Europe greater responsibiIities for its defence byestablishing European Security and Defence Identity (ESDI),which has been a long historic aspiration for many Europeans.