Enhancing Military Capabilities within the EU and NATO

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Enhancing Military Capabilities within
the EU and NATO

• H.G.J. Kamp
• Minister of Defence, The Netherlands

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Enhancing Military Capabilities within the EU and
NATO

• Development, production and
• and procurement of military
• assests increasingly require
• international co-operation

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Enhancing Military Capabilities within the EU and
NATO

• Two questions
• - How far has Europe progressed
• with the capability development
• process within the EU and NATO?

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Enhancing Military Capabilities within the EU and
NATO

• - What more does Europe need to do
• to meet the capability requirements
• of the EU and NATO?

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Enhancing Military Capabilities within the EU and
NATO

• Three Issues
• 1. Europe needs more military
• capabilities for high quality
• performance in crisis management

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Enhancing Military Capabilities within the EU and
NATO

• 2. European defence efforts are too
• fragmented due to a lack of
• multinational co-operation

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Enhancing Military Capabilities within the EU and
NATO

• 3. Co-operation between EU and
• NATO is essential for effective
• capability improvement

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Enhancing Military Capabilities within the EU and
NATO

• Seven starting points for discussion
• 1. European governments must take
• their responsibility in implementing
• defence reforms
• 2. We should look for innovative
• solutions for the most pressing
• shortfalls

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NATO

• 3. Make sure that EU and NATO
• continue to work in the same
• direction
• 4. A more open and competitive
• defence market is beneficial for the
• enhancement of European
• capabilities

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Enhancing Military Capabilities within the EU and
NATO

• 5. We should work to harmonise the
• requirements for our future
• capabilities

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Enhancing Military Capabilities within the EU and
NATO

• 6. Europe needs a strategy for
• collaboration on research and
• technology, as well as extra
• financial resources to implement
• that strategy

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Enhancing Military Capabilities within the EU and
NATO

• 7. European governments but also
• defence industries should co-
• operate more in order to create
• economies of scale

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Enhancing Military Capabilities within the EU and
NATO

• In conclusion
• - National interests and the common
• European interest will constantly
• compete for priority

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Enhancing Military Capabilities within the EU and
NATO

• - Multinational co-operation and
• European integration in the field of
• Defence are feasible if countries live
• up to notion of shared responsibility
• for Europes military shortfalls