62 political, military and diplomatic European leaders endorses the recommendations in the ELN report ‘EU-NATO Relations: Inching forward?’ and call on governments to improve EU-NATO cooperation.
Building on consultations with officials a new ELN report assesses the progress made since the 2016 EU-NATO Joint Declaration. It takes two key areas as case studies: exercising and capacity building, through which it identifies achievable opportunities for further EU-NATO cooperation.
Alice Billon-Galland, Researcher at the ELN, encourages the newly-elected President Macron to take the lead in European defence and security cooperation.
Forty-five distinguished members of the network, the ELN Caucus, shared their views on the key dynamics characterising the security and defence landscape in Europe.
ELN Researcher Alice Billon-Galland argues that Europeans should watch the French legislative election just as closely as the presidential one as the fate of France – and Europe – will still be in the balance on 8th May.
ELN Director Sir Adam Thomson looks at Europe’s current inability to act autonomously on its own defence and suggests aiming at a European rather than EU strategic autonomy, which would include EU-NATO collaboration.