What would be the ingredients of a common European foreign and security policy that would work? These issues are at the heart of the debate in the Convention in this area. The first ingredient would be that the Commission be given the principal power of policy initiative across the whole area, and that it administer a new European Union diplomatic service throughout the world. The second would be that the Council of Ministers would make the decisions, on behalf of the states, on the basis of Commission proposals, and that these decisions would be loyally followed by all members, big and small. The third would be that European military forces would become truly inter-operable and co-operate with one another so as to complement rather than, as they currently do, duplicate one another. That implies a European armaments agency, recommended by one of the working groups of the Convention, to co-ordinate purchasing of equipment.