For a European Defence Union
In our second piece on the German election, Thomas Oppermann MdB sets out the defence policy of the Social Democrats
In our second piece on the German election, Thomas Oppermann MdB sets out the defence policy of the Social Democrats
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Europeans need to think more systemically about capability development and combine NATO and EU efforts. The institutions fundamentally approach capabilities in different ways: NATO is interested in capabilities that caters to its operations while the EU considers capabilities a member state...
In this first piece in the series on the German elections, former ELN Research Fellow Julia Himmrich highlights the key contentious issues for future German defence policy.
Janusz Onyszkiewicz argues that new initiatives for EU defence integration should strengthen the EU-NATO relationship further and he proposes a new informal European Security Council
ELN Associate Fellow Ilana Bet-El argues that the EU has made a clear commitment to become a more militarily capable actor, a very significant step in a world that is far from certain.