EU-NATO Relations
EU-NATO Relations

Summary/Abstract: As the Alliance has been in the process of contemplating its mission and priorities in the post 9/11 era, relations with other international organizations and partner countries occupy a critical place on the transformation agenda. If there is one point around which there seems to exist an intra-alliance consensus, it is the need to strengthen the institutional cooperation between the European Union and NATO, the key organizations of the transatlantic community. Various think tank reports, high level politicians and officers and lately the expert group chaired by the former US Secretary of State Madeline Albright have underlined the point that as the Alliance re-defines its security rationale in a cooperative and comprehensive manner, it needs to improve the level and nature of its cooperation with the European Union. The key challenge ahead seems to figure out appropriate institutional mechanisms through which NATO could benefit from the resources and capabilities of the European Union in crisismanagement operations, mainly in out-of-Europe contingencies.

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