The European Union’s top diplomat will present his fellow European Commissioners with the first draft of the ‘Strategic Compass’, the closest thing the EU could have to a military doctrine and akin to NATO’s ‘Strategic Concept’ that sets out alliance goals
The European Union’s top diplomat is set to warn the bloc on Wednesday that it must agree an ambitious doctrine as the basis for joint military action abroad, including with a deployable crisis force, according to excerpts of a draft seen by Reuters.
Member states also lack the logistics and command and control capabilities of the United States and cannot match its intelligence-gathering. With the blessing of U.S. President Joe Biden in a communique with French President Emmanuel Macron last month, the EU argues it can be a more useful ally to the United States if it develops standalone military capacities.
But despite progress on building a common defence fund to develop weapons together since late 2017, the EU has yet to deploy its battalion-sized battlegroups in a crisis.
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