The European Council and European defence cooperation: Developments since June 2016
Briefing
12-12-2016
At its December 2016 meeting, the European Council will consider options for strengthening European defence cooperation. This paper focuses on security and defence developments since June 2016, when the European Council last addressed security and defence, in particular EU-NATO cooperation. It considers the process that led to the inclusion of security and defence on the December 2016 European Council agenda, as well as the expected outcome of the meeting.
Briefing
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- air and space transport
- air force
- common security and defence policy
- communications
- computer crime
- cooperation policy
- defence
- drone
- economic analysis
- economic geography
- ECONOMICS
- EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATIONS
- EU civilian mission
- EU institutions and European civil service
- EU Member State
- EU Military Committee
- EU military mission
- EU statistics
- European construction
- European Council
- European defence policy
- EUROPEAN UNION
- foreign policy
- GEOGRAPHY
- information technology and data processing
- INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- international security
- Internet
- military cooperation
- satellite communications
- TRANSPORT