The EU’s defence drive lacks a plan and a political mandat
By Giles Merritt, founder of Friends of Europe It is almost 30 years since the last collaborative defence initiative collapsed, leaving Europe’s military clout weaker than ever. The Saint-Malo agreement’s promises of ‘hard power’ proved a mirage, the European Defence Agency largely toothless, and the EU’s battlegroups more a paper army than a deployable force. Today, […]
