The EU and NATO, with 22 joint members, are going through halcyon years of cooperation. 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 controversies around transatlantic burden sharing and European strategic autonomy obscure 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 beyond complementarity to synergies; for example, as has …read more
From Complementarity to Synergies in EU-NATO Relations
