Press Release: EU governments endorse capability plan for future military needs, pledge joint efforts

European Union governments, on 8 July 2008, endorsed a Capability Development Plan (CDP) defining the future military needs and priorities of European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) and agreed to use it to guide future national defence investment decisions and to seek opportunities to collaborate so as to address their short-to-longer-term military requirements coherently.

European Defence Agency: Documents: Background Note on Capability Development Plan, 8.7.08 http://www.eda.europa.eu/genericitem.aspx?id=386

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