The latest draft of the ‘strategic compass’ has been agreed by the foreign and defense ministers at their joint meeting in Brussels. Without a fixed structure, member states are expected to contribute means for a modular force of up to 5,000 soldiers.
The member states of the European Union have given the green light this Monday to the common defense strategy with which the bloc will gain military capacity and better coordinate efforts in the field of defense during the next decade.
The latest draft of the ‘strategic compass’ has been agreed by the foreign and defense ministers at their joint meeting in Brussels, according to diplomatic sources.
It is a plan that establishes a common understanding of Defense, with objectives such as having the ability to deploy rapid response forces at EU level in crisis situations.
Specifically, the document that will now be endorsed by the Heads of State and Government at the summit this Thursday, states that in 2025 the Twenty-seven are in a position to deploy these forces.
Without a fixed structure, member states are expected to provide means for a modular force of up to 5000 soldiers.
Before, by the end of this year, the EU countries commit to agree on the operational scenarios and Defense plans, with the idea of starting to carry out European military maneuvers in 2023 with which to increase the preparation and interoperability of these forces.
war in ukraine
The new impetus for security and defense in the EU responds, according to the European strategy, to “a more hostile environment and geopolitical trends that require the bloc to assume a greater part of the responsibility for its own security”, a reality that the war in ukraine has made it even more obvious.
At all times, the strategy is structured as a complement to the NATOthe ‘strategic compass’ indicates that cooperation between the two organizations is “essential for Euro-Atlantic security, as the Russian military aggression against Ukraine has shown.”
Although the idea of having a European white paper on Defense was born two years ago, its approval coincides with the return to a war scenario in Europe.
Moreover, the Ukrainian crisis is mentioned several times in the document supported by the ministers and it is pointed out that it has made clear the need to improve the “military mobility of the armed forces inside and outside the Union”.
Source: Eitb
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