New Momentum for European Defence Cooperation
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Sammendrag
For better or for worse, the politics of Brexit, in combination
with the implementation of the new EU Global Strategy for Foreign
and Security Policy, have generated renewed momentum
for European defence cooperation. EU member states have tabled
a range of proposals. Some consolidation will be necessary,
especially if effective defence integration is the aim – and
that is the way to overcome current fragmentation. National
forces can cooperate and be made interoperable with other
forces in various formats simultaneously, but they can be integrated
only once. Two levels of defence cooperation and integration
must be addressed. At the level of the EU as such, and
using EU incentives such as Commission funding for R&T, largescale
projects for the development and acquisition of strategic
enablers can be mounted, with the European Defence Agency
acting as manager. At the level of state clusters, large deployable
multinational formations can be created (such as army corps
and air wings), with fully integrated maintenance, logistics and
other structures in support of the national manoeuvre units that
each participant can contribute. By pooling all-too-limited national
military sovereignty in this way, defence cooperation and
integration can revive sovereignty, understood as the capacity
for action, at a higher level.
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