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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 stren...

You can subscribe here. /// EDITOR’s TAKE Military mobility has been seen as the ‘silver bullet’ for EU-NATO defence cooperation, meant to ensure seamless movement of military equipment across the EU in response to crises. The military project, which bounced back from being nearly dead on the EU side recently, has also been hailed as one of the EU’s flagship defence initiatives with few political disagreements across the bloc. Throughout the negotiation process of the EU’s new long-term budget last year, military mobility was on the verge of becoming one of the main casualties, wit...