EU's Bosnia police mission is 'laughing stock'

It is vital that the European Union develops a common European Security and Defence Policy to deal with security threats both on its borders and, as is increasingly common, in more far-flung trouble-spots throughout the world. The first real test of a common EU Security and Defence Policy has been the EU Police Mission (EUPM) to Bosnia and Herzegovina, which replaced the oft-maligned UN-run International Police Task Force (IPTF) at the beginning of 2003.