The Evolution of the EU's Foreign Trade Policy.

This scientific research paper will answer the question how did the EU's foreign trade policy developed through the years and what were the motives behind the evolution? The answer to that question is reached by a research and legal analysis of all of 31 EU's FTAs that are currently in force, with the addition of the FTA concluded with the Republic Croatia which is no longer in force. The authors believe that it is important to know the past so one could understand the present and discuss the potential future. For this purpose the paper contains the classification of 32 FTAs which have different rationales, scopes, political and economic motivations. The classification as a whole represents the evolution of the EU FTAs and by that mere fact, the evolution of the EU's foreign trade policy in general. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]