Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/256163 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
SWP Comments No. 25/2011
Publisher: 
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Berlin
Abstract: 
With talk of the demise of the CSDP doing the rounds, is it perhaps surprising to see the Polish Council Presidency coming up with ambitious proposals as far-reaching as a civil-military headquarters for the EU. The agenda Poland has drawn up in close consultation with France and Germany (the Weimar Triangle) addresses a wave of security problems facing the EU's member states. Trapped between falling defence budgets and growing international challenges, states will have no alternative but to cooperate with one another. Poland hopes to revitalise the Common Security and Defence Policy as the defining framework for the EU's security policy. The Weimar Triangle should support Poland and push three pragmatic ideas: developing civil-military crisis response forces, setting up a military headquarters, and shared provision and use of military capabilities
Document Type: 
Research Report

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