The Resilience of the European Union and NATO in an Era of Multiple Crises
The European Commission’s (EC) seeks comprehensively to enhance the EU’s resilience to crisis outside the area of NATO’s collective defence. One reflection of these ambitions is a report on strengthening Europe’s civil-military preparedness, drafted under the guidance of former Finnish President Sauli Niinistö and presented by the EC in October 2024. Łukasz Maślanka and Piotr Szymański suggest in their article for the
Center for Eastern Studies, Warsaw, that NATO and the EU should continue to coordinate their efforts as closely as possible to maximise synergies while avoiding unnecessary duplication of structures and competition. The risk remains that EU-imposed security standards could be enforced without considering the security concerns of individual countries. Another potential issue is that the European Commission could define the scope of future regulations too ambitiously, without the certainty of securing funding for their implementation. Notably, the report emphasises the need for closer EU-NATO cooperation and avoids divisive debates on European strategic autonomy.
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