Europe faces a dual crisis of growing security threats and declining economic competitiveness. Increased defence spending offers an opportunity to address both challenges. Through initiatives such as ReArm Europe and NATO's 5% pledge, EU Member States are committing substantial resources to...

China-Russia joint military exercises should be taken seriously, considering their frequency, complexity and global reach. Some are designed for communication and political messaging, signalling displeasure with the US military presence in various regions and defence cooperation among Western...

China-Russia joint military exercises should be taken seriously, considering their frequency, complexity and global reach. Some are designed for communication and political messaging, signalling displeasure with the US military presence in various regions and defence cooperation among Western...

The EU should expand its support to the development of Ukraine's defence industry to sustain the country's fighting power, reduce its dependencies on Western aid and boost its domestic economy. Two broad areas demand particular attention. As a matter of urgency Ukraine needs investment in local...

The EU should expand its support to the development of Ukraine's defence industry to sustain the country's fighting power, reduce its dependencies on Western aid and boost its domestic economy. Two broad areas demand particular attention. As a matter of urgency Ukraine needs investment in local...

Continuing a well-established tradition which has found sustained favour with our readers, this is the eighth volume of the annual EUISS collection of Core documents on European security and defence. This compendium reflects the evolution of EU policy making in the realm of Common Foreign and...

This Occasional Paper is devoted to the proposals on European defence under discussion during the 2008 French EU Presidency. While Americans and Europeans alike support stronger EU-NATO cooperation, the output has so far been unsatisfactory. This paper examines specific initiatives for a...

2006, another year in which ESDP has gone from strength to strength. Unfortunately, it is true that its dynamism is also a symptom of the continuing deterioration in the international security situation since 2003. The civil war in Iraq, the nuclear issue in Iran, the war in Lebanon, the...

A year of striking contrasts, 2005 will go down in the annals as a year in which the European Union experienced a major political crisis, while at the same time showing remarkable dynamism on the international stage. This volume contains as comprehensive a compendium as possible of the...

This fifth volume of Core documents lists the European Union's decisions and actions in the field of security and defence taken during 2004. Texts concerning ESDP are collected in the first part of this volume: they include in particular the establishment of the European Defence Agency, the...