Internationale Politikanalyse International Policy Analysis Christos Katsioulis European Foreign Policy on Trial A Global Actor in the Making?  Although the EU has a wide range of effective policy instruments at its disposal all too often it is unable to deploy them. Rhetorical declarations aside, it lacks both clear precepts in terms of norms and values, and their implementation in the form of political priorities and coherent policies.  Unless it is able to clarify its relations with key partners and reach agree­ment on common priorities the EU will be relegated to a subordinate role in the face of pressing global challenges and the reshaping of the world order.  At the forefront of any strategic debate should be the EU’s relations with the USA and Russia, and its policy towards its immediate neighbours. MARCH 2009