The EU and NATO, with 22 common members, are going through halcyon years of cooperation in addressing global challenges and managing crises. From joint declarations on strategic partnership in 2016 and 2018 through mutual invitations to summits and other high-level meetings to 74 projects across seven policy areas, they are coordinating their efforts more than ever. Recent debates around transatlantic burden sharing and European strategic autonomy sometimes elide the underlying reality of shoulder-to-shoulder efforts and mutual reliance as partners of first resort.
Yet, as the European Parliament called for in a resolution earlier this year, the EU and NATO should move …read more