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Common Defence of EU Countries : Reality or Fantasy?
Common Defence of EU Countries : Reality or Fantasy?

Author(s): Rafał Willa
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Political Sciences
Published by: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
Keywords: Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP); PESCO; common defence; security strategy; defence industry

Summary/Abstract: Limited energy resources, EU member countries’ budget capabilities impaired by the financial and debt crisis, Brexit, or the migration crisis that is causing serious consequences, are but a few serious challenges that the Union is going to face within the short-term perspective. One ought not forget about the increasingly powerful and meaningful threats to the Project Europe: rampant terrorism, increasing military activity of Russia (including its actions in eastern Ukraine, Crimea, or on the Sea of Azov), as well as the ambivalent (to say the least) attitude of the current President of the USA towards NATO. Even these few challenges and threats ought to cause for an increase in the decisive and, later on, organizational effort for the purpose of transforming the EU into an entity that shall be able to counteract and react to them. The intention of the author of this article is to provide an attempt to answer the question whether the indicated process is actually taking place.

  • Issue Year: 64/2019
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 45-61
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: English
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