POOLING OF EU MEMBER STATES ASSETS IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ESDP
Jean-Pierre MAULNY and Fabio LIBERTI / Directorate General External Policies of the Union - Subcommitted on Security and Defence - European Parliament / February 2008
In the defence arena, ‘non-Europe’ represents a huge and irrational cost for European taxpayers. There is far too much duplication of defence effort spread across the Member States of the EU. Yet they are all meant to be trying to find common solutions to common problems. No-one expects European armies to become truly interoperable for the foreseeable future but, nevertheless, the pooling of capabilities would be a huge step in the right direction. There are already a handful of initiatives of this kind in Europe, but much more could be done. DOWNLOAD