No. 241 PESCO Armament Cooperation: Prospects and Fault Lines

Author(s): Amos Dossi
Editor(s): Benno Zogg
Series Editor(s): Lisa Watanabe, Fabien Merz, Benno Zogg
Series: CSS Analyses in Security Policy
Issue: 241
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2019

An increasingly complex security environment, strained national resources, and centrifugal tendencies on the federal level motivate EU member states and institutions to deepen their defense cooperation. The framework provided by the Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) can serve this purpose – as long as its priorities focus on practical synergies instead of political symbolism.

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