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Development Perspective for the European Defense Action Plan - July 26 2017

By Antoni Pienkos for the Warsaw Institute for Strategic Initiatives

Over the period of the last 12 months, EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), and particularly Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) have seen unusually intensive activity. One of the most significant reasons for the increase interest in this field was the dynamically changing security environment for many of EU’s member states. The observations of the conflict in East Ukraine, the experience gathered throughout the Arab Spring, most notably during the operation in Libya, which exposed the inadequacity of European military capabilities, as well as the declarations made at the Warsaw NATO Summit have all provoked an urgent need to establish a strictly European tool to counter the negative effects of the decrease of military and operational capabilities of the member states. The alarming process is not an individual case and has affected practically all of EU’s members.[...]