NATO Ambassadors and EU Commissioner have met to discuss further cooperation in order to enhance and strengthen European defence. Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg welcomed European Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska to NATO to brief the council on the latest developments regarding the European Defence Action Plan and the European Defence Fund. The meeting also ...
A new report has revealed that NATO and the European Union are making good progress in their efforts to collaborate more effectively on defence and security issues. The findings come from the first progress report on NATO-EU Cooperation, authored jointly by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and EU High Representative / ...
Brexit and its implications continue to be widely discussed. Here, defence writer Mark Lane takes a look at a recent report on what leaving the EU might mean for UK defence and for defence procurement. Negotiations over the UK’s departure from the EU are barely under way and it will be ...
Defence Secretary, Sir Michael Fallon, has reaffirmed the commitment of the UK to European security at a meeting of the European Union Defence Minister in Brussels. The Defence Secretary has urged EU members to put security firmly at the top of its priorities by stepping up its cooperation with NATO, in ...