By: P.T., STA
EU defence ministers agreed the Afghanistan experience called for enhancing building the EU’s defence and military capabilities with a view to ensure the bloc’s strategic autonomy.
The EU’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said the EU must strengthen its strategic autonomy, part of which would be a rapid reaction force, as he spoke to the press at the end of a two-day informal meeting as part of Slovenia’s EU presidency. Slovenian Defence Minister Matej Tonin said that to do that the EU would need political will for change, most notably to change the consensus-based decision making.
