In Defence of Europe: Defence Integration as a Response to Europe’s Strategic Moment

The European Political Strategy Centre (EPSC) reports directly to the President of the European Commission and operates under his authority. It is composed of a professional staff of advisers, policy analysts and support staff with appropriate experience and track record, in order to provide professional and targeted policy advice to the President and the College.

EPSC provides strategic analysis and policy advice for the President on matters related to the policy priorities (as defined by the President in his political guidelines presented to the European Parliament on 15 July 2014), and outreach to decision-makers, think tanks and civil society at large.

The EPSC provides support to the President also on concrete initiatives, as well as policy advice of more long-term nature.

EPSC Strategic Notes are analytical papers on topics chosen by the President of the European Commission. They are produced by the European Political Strategy Centre (EPSC), the European Commission’s in-house think tank.An increasingly unstable neighbourhood, a changing geopolitical environment and shrinking national defence budgets pose massive challenges to Europe’s security. Intensified military cooperation is widely accepted as the best solution for Europe’s defence – yet the current system fails to deliver.

• Primary Source

ESO: Information Guide: Security and Defence http://www.europeansources.info/record/information-guide-security-and-defence-in-europe/

ESO: Information Guide: Common Foreign and Security Policy http://www.europeansources.info/record/information-guide-common-foreign-and-security-policy/

ESO: Background information: Toward a European Defense Union http://www.europeansources.info/record/toward-a-european-defense-union/

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