NATO-EU RELATION FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE IMPLICATIONS OF “SMART DEFENCE” AND “POOLING AND SHARING” CONCEPTS
NATO-EU RELATION FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE IMPLICATIONS OF “SMART DEFENCE” AND “POOLING AND SHARING” CONCEPTS

Summary/Abstract: The concepts of “pooling and sharing”, developed at EU’s level, and “smart defence”, developed by NATO, refer to an intelligent manner to invest in defence, to pool resources in order to create or procure capabilities which are to be used in common by the participant states. Although these concepts are presented as novelties, as innovative solutions for the current issues which European actors, US, NATO, and EU are facing in terms of investments in defence, the general definition of these concepts recalls of aspects related to “common security”, “permanent structured cooperation”, “European Defence Agency’s missions”, “burden sharing”, etc. The core idea of this article consists in the fact that, although the problem of making defence investments more efficient is in no circumstances of recent date, the current period offers the ideal context for its development, which will bring a series of advantages in terms of defence planning, if the afferent difficulties will be managed adequately.

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