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NEW CER POLICY BRIEF 'France, NATO and European defence' by Tomas Valasek, March 2008 |
Dear Sir or Madam,
President
Nicolas Sarkozy and Prime Minister Brown will spend a part of their summit
this week discussing the EU and NATO. Europe's two main security institutions
make terrible friends. Even though their memberships largely overlap (21
out of the EU's 27 member-states are also in NATO), the two organisations
are not allowed to discuss important issues like Kosovo. But things are
changing. President Nicolas Sarkozy has offered to return France to NATO's
military structures. This policy brief argues that Britain now needs to
respond to Sarkozy's initiative by agreeing with France to strengthen
the EU’s defence policy. It also proposes ways to entice Turkey to
drop its opposition to closer EU-NATO co-operation.
Tomas Valasek is director of foreign policy and defence at the
Centre for European Reform.
Please
find the link below to the policy brief:
France,
NATO and European defence
policy brief by Tomas Valasek, March 2008
Best wishes
CER
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