A redefinition of security awaits Europe. It will be accompanied by an atmosphere of return to Cold War spirits, expressed by the reclamation of status quo of state territoriality through referenda/ plebiscites (e.g. the emancipation processes in Spain and Scotland) and tightening the realpolitik in the Middle East and Ukraine. xe state of tension will be further maintained by the boomerang results of: Asian economic expansion, increasing doubts over the evectiveness of liberal democracy, powerlessness against the wave of refugees and economic emigrants, as well as the radicalization of nationalist behavior and portents of the decomposition of the European Union itself. If the Community intends to remain an inwuential actor on the global and regional political scene, it needs to improve the evectiveness of strategic projection and abandon its self-admiration and institutional egoism which is expressed through permanent verbal declarations of self-repair. In practice, the bloated bureaucratic machinery should be reduced. Europeans are waiting for less EU declarations and more e|cient management of the crisis of cohesion and solidarity as well as conducting an audit of all the agendas of EU activity. xe shape and quality of European internal security will be determined by the overall capability of the European Union to anticipate the possible directions of the development of the situation – according to national needs dezned on the basis of recognized and diagnosed threats.