How to make Europe’s military work

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Series Details 17.8.09
Publication Date 17/08/2009
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Commentary feature in which Charles Grant argues that the EU needs to accept that building a defence policy with 27 countries will never work. When it comes to organising missions that may require the use of force, those countries with robust strategic cultures should form their own body under an EU umbrella. Any country wanting to join such a club would have to satisfy conditions based on military capabilities and attitudes to the use of force.

Charles Grant is director of the Centre for European Reform and the author of 'Is Europe doomed to fail as a power?'

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CER: Is Europe doomed to fail as a power?, July 2009 http://www.cer.org.uk/publications/archive/essay/2009/europe-doomed-fail-power

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