EU defence ministers on Thursday (6 May) agreed to allow the United States, Norway and Canada to join the bloc’s project on military mobility, seen as the ‘silver bullet’ for EU-NATO defence cooperation and designed to ensure seamless movement of military equipment across the EU in response to crises.
“Their expertise will contribute to the project and, with it, to improving military mobility within and beyond the EU,” the bloc’s foreign policy chief and meeting chairman, Josep Borrell, said following the agreement.
“It will make EU defence more efficient and contribute to strengthening our security,” he added.
It’s the first time that the EU will allow outside countries to join its so-called Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) framework of 46 military projects and is a sign of improving EU-NATO cooperation.
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Connecting the prospective undersea tunnel between Tallinn and Helsinki to the Rail Baltic project is a precondition for the tunnel s development, reads the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by transport ministers of both Estonia and Finland on Monday.
Minister of Economic Affairs and Infrastructure Taavi Aas (Center) and Finland s Minister of Transport and Communications Timo Harakka signed a Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation between the two countries in the transport sector on Monday.
The purpose of the MoU is cooperation in the transport sector and exchange of information between the countries in order to promote large-scale transport projects, such as the Helsinki-Tallinn tunnel, Rail Baltica, Trans-European Transport Networks, and North Sea–Baltic Sea core network corridor. The MoU provides an improved environment for applying EU funding for the projects, the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Infrastructure announced.
0 >The proposed undersea tunnel would connect the Estonian and Finnish capitals of Tallinn and Helsinki under the Gulf of Finland. Source: (Siim Lõvi/ERR)
A protocol of common intent to build an undersea tunnel to Finland will be signed by Estonia on Monday.
At a cabinet meeting on Thursday, the government consented to allow Minister of Economic Affairs Taavi Aas (Center) to sign the agreement with Finland. Its contents will be made public after signing, the government office said. The agreement of intent does not mean a tunnel will definitely be built in the future.
The agreement means the plan can be added to the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) which creates the possibility to apply for European funding in the future.
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