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Within the framework of the current arms race and militarisation of international relations, in which the US, NATO and EU are playing a central role, any initiative that – even if in a limited and insufficient way – contributes to restricting arms exports will be a step in the right direction.
However, what characterises the EU is its option of giving new impetus to the ‘Europe of Defence’ (a euphemism for intervention and aggression), reaffirming its ‘goal of strengthening the strategic partnership between the EU and NATO’ and adapting it to current needs, in a spirit of complementing and strengthening each other.
You only have to look at the draft conclusions of the European Council of 11 and 12 December regarding the strengthening of the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) – which prepares the position of the great powers of the EU for the NATO Summit of April next year – which offers the prospect of a qualitative leap in the so-called ‘European Security Strategy’ (of 2003) and the establishment of new goals for ‘strengthening and optimising European capabilities’ over the next 10 years, ‘to enable the EU, in the coming years, to conduct simultaneously, outside its territory, a series of civilian missions and military operations of varying scope, corresponding to the most likely scenarios’."@en1
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