The EU currently faces several geopolitical challenges in its neighboring regions. The crisis in Ukraine, the civil war in Syria, and the influx of refugees into Europe require a well-coordinated EU foreign and security policy. In public discourse, expectations of EU crisis management are often either excessive or fail to consider the EU’s capabilities at all. There is a weak understanding that the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) is constantly evolving and shaping. It is often forgotten that the actions of member states and their political decisions are decisive, especially for the strengthening of military crisis management within the CFSP. Developing crisis management is a particularly timely theme for the EU when considering the direction in which the CFSP is developing and what the EU’s global role is. The possibilities of EU crisis management also reflect on both the internal and external security of member states, as well as on the support of security.