EU leaders vow to boost Europe's defence capabilities

Written by Hugo Brady, 14 December 2012

Europe's common security policy is "stuck between the strategic realities of declining defence budgets, waning European power in the world and a lack of will and ability to project strategic force outward", said Hugo Brady, a senior research fellow at the CER. "And on the other side, political inertia to do serious stuff in defence."

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