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European Defence and PESCO: Don't Waste the Chance [1]

EU IDEA Papers [2]

European Defence and PESCO: Don't Waste the Chance

[3]
Authors:
Sven Biscop [4]
05/05/2020

Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) is a major initiative in differentiated integration within the EU in the field of defence. This paper assesses whether the legal framework (the 20 binding commitments), and the way the 25 participating member states have organised to implement it, are sufficient to achieve the purpose of PESCO. Moreover, it asks the question whether there is a clear sense of purpose at all. Analysing the ongoing debates between the member states about the future of the Common Security and Defence Policy as a whole, the paper then proposes recommendations to make PESCO work: by focusing on a more concrete objective, by prioritising strategically relevant projects and by enhancing compliance.

euidea_pp_1.pdf [3]

Details

  • Details

    Rome, IAI, May 2020, 15 p.
  • In:
    EU IDEA Papers [2]
  • Issue

    Policy Paper 1

Table of contents

Executive summary
Introduction
1. Does PESCO work?
2. Why PESCO doesn’t work (I): A lack of purpose
3. Why PESCO doesn’t work (II): A culture of non-compliance
4. A Strategic Compass for the CSDP
5. Making it work (I): Focus on a concrete objective
6. Making it work (II): Prioritise strategically relevant projects
7. Making it work (III): Promoting compliance
Conclusion
References

External links

Paper in EU IDEA website [5]

Source URL:https://www.iai.it/en/pubblicazioni/c12/european-defence-and-pesco-dont-waste-chance

Links
[1] https://www.iai.it/en/pubblicazioni/c12/european-defence-and-pesco-dont-waste-chance [2] https://www.iai.it/en/pubblicazioni/lista/all/eu-idea-papers [3] https://www.iai.it/sites/default/files/euidea_pp_1.pdf [4] https://www.iai.it/en/persone/sven-biscop [5] https://euidea.eu/?p=1018