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Core Groups: The way to real European defence

21 Feb 2017 - 10:49
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This Security Policy Brief is part of a series of contributions by speakers at the 6-7 February Egmont-Raytheon event on The European Defence of Europe.

European countries continue to have different political views on the use of military force. Their armed forces also show a wide variety in terms of capabilities for operations low to high in the spectrum. Thus, European strategic autonomy in deploying armed forces for military operations requires a new approach. Rather than pursuing the impossible – acting at 28 – European countries should form core groups of partners with comparable intent, willingness and capabilities. France and the UK can provide the core for a European intervention force while Germany and Poland could constitute the core of a heavy land force formation.

All core groups should support each other in a network, to be developed under the overarching umbrella’s of the EU and NATO.