Delegation for Strategic Affairs
European defence does not mean the collective defence of the European countries from outside attack, which is guaranteed by NATO, but the management of crises occurring outside the European Union. The European countries have first sought to secure the area around Europe's borders that would have been potentially disruptive or even a threat to their national security.
The Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) is the crisis management instrument at the disposal of the European Union and its Member States. Along with the UN and NATO it constitutes a preferred ...
The heads of state or government of the twenty-seven European Union Member States meet four times a year in the European Council, which becomes an institution in its own right with the implementation ...
In 1950 the start of Cold War in Europe raised the issue of European security and possible German rearmament. A plan proposed by the French President René Pleven in 1950, the European Defence ...
Alexander Weis is the current Chief Executive of the European Defence Agency. After studying law, from 1990 he was responsible for cooperation at the German federal office responsible for military ...
The Lisbon Treaty enlarged the scope of the European Union's CSDP activities. The Petersberg tasks, which define the framework for EU crisis management action, initially consisted of humanitarian and ...
Military and civilian capabilities are essential to the European Union if it is to fulfil its missions and operations throughout the world and achieve its ambitions. The Helsinki European Council on ...
