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Friday, November 14, 2008

Future of NATO-EU military cooperation

NATO and the European Union need to overcome their political differences and increase cooperation on military matters, according to officials from both organizations.

Both the trans-Atlantic alliance and the EU are in a transition phase in regard to security matters: NATO is debating whether to expand eastward, and in Afghanistan it is embroiled in one of its most difficult military operations to date. The 27-member EU in recent years welcomed in new member states and is debating how its European Security and Defense Policy should look in the future.

Twenty-one of 27 EU nations are also members of NATO, and both organizations "are active together in the same theaters of conflict," Jean-Francois Bureau, NATO's assistant secretary-general for public diplomacy, said Tuesday at an experts' panel in Berlin.

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