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- Title: Common Ground for European Defense
- Author : Claudia Major & Christian Mölling
- Release Date : January 26, 2016
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 438 KB
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Support for a European defense strategy is growing. This paper offers a key ingredient: the common ground and prohibitive differences among EU governments on issues like threat perception, the role of the military, capability requirements, cooperation, EU and NATO, and the defense industry. There is a lot of common ground, and the differences often point to discrepancies in priorities rather than approaches. However, two features that EU countries share pose the most daunting obstacle to defense progess on a European level: The EU as a framework for defense cooperation has lost importance; and all countries insist upon their defense sovereignty, especially when it comes to defense industry. A European defense strategy that moves EU defense forward will need to forge a debate on the implication of the Lisbon treaty for defense, link existing means to strategic aims, and introduce common European language into national strategies and practice.