EU defense strategy paper: the end of &# • Table.Briefings

The compass is now supposed to show the way: The EU is currently debating its guiding strategy on defense and security – the so-called strategic compass. In the future, there is to be more commitment in the area of cyber defense. Brussels also wants to expand its involvement in the Indo-Pacific. That will anger Beijing.

The EU wants to flex its muscles and is preparing for its future security and defense policy with a new strategy paper – and China is playing no small part in it. After all, the People’s Republic is mentioned numerous times in the draft, which is available to China.Table. On Monday, the document was already discussed in the Council of EU Foreign and Defense Ministers. The path is clear: In the future, the EU needs to be much more than a „soft power“, as EU Foreign Affairs High Representative Josep Borrell has put it.

EU defense strategy paper: the end of “soft power”

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