The Inter-Parliamentary Conference for the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) was established in 2012 by the Conference of Speakers of the EU Parliaments “in the spirit of the new parliamentary dimension of the Treaty of Lisbon”. It allows for the national parliaments of the EU Member States and the European Parliament to deliberate on these policy areas which are part of intergovernmental cooperation in the European Union and not communitariz...