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Trapped between falling defense budgets and growing international challenges, European states will have no alternative but to cooperate with one another. During its Council Presidency in 2011, Poland hoped to revitalize the Common Security and Defence Policy as the defining framework for the EU's security policy. The Weimar Triangle should support Poland and push three pragmatic ideas: developing civil-military crisis response forces, setting up a military headquarters, and shared provision and use of military capabilities.