In this article published in the French daily newspaper Le Figaro on 17 March 1998, Lluís Maria de Puig, President of the Assembly of Western European Union (WEU), describes the organisation’s development and calls for its revival. He believes that WEU should not restrict its activities to the field of the common foreign and security policy (CFSP) in accordance with the mandate given it by the European Union, but should rely more on the development of its own means of decision-making and action.