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In the case of Europe's foreign and security policy, meaningful coordination will not come from institutional tinkering but from political vision and will. Indeed, the lack of political cohesion can only truly change if the forerunners of European foreign and security policy - Germany, France and the United Kingdom - align their global interests together. A realistic alternative to absent leadership by the EU-3 is not a Common Foreign and Security Policy of the EU-27. The real consequences, this commentary argues, would be unilateralism in these policy domains.