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European Security and Defence Policy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia European Defence Community : The EDC was a defence community proposed in the 1950s soon after the creation of the European Coal and Steel Community. The European Security and Defence Policy or ESDP is considered a major element of the Common Foreign and Security Policy pillar of the European Union (EU). This will lead to a common defence, when the European Council, acting unanimously, so decides. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/European_Security_and_Defence_Policy

European Defence Agency - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The European Defence Agency (EDA) is an agency under the Council of the European Union. On July 12, 2004 Javier Solana, European Union foreign policy chief, was appointed Head of the EDA.  This article about the European Union operations is a stub. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/European_Defence_Agency

EU Referendum Not a name with which many will be familiar, Nick Witney, formerly a senior civil servant in the Ministry of Defence, is now the chief executive of the newly formed European Defence Agency, charged (in theory) with assisting EU member states in making procurement decisions. Yet Witney sees himself as a "catalyst" for member states to take more common decisions, promising to take "a leading role" in proposing new policy approaches on how a European defence equipment market might work and how it might be brought into being. Now Witney is back in the fray, speaking at a conference on defence in Madrid, declaring that Europe suffers from an “embarrassing gap” between its aspirations for a leading defence role on the world stage and its limited military strength. eureferendum.blogspot.com /2005/02/parting-of-ways.html

List of Chaillot Papers In addition, member states tasked the European Defence Agency to explore possibilities of a Code of Conduct to foster competition within the scope of Art. In September 2004, the European Commission issued a Green Paper on defence procurement, proposing various options to improve transparency and openness of defence markets between EU member states. Since the Cologne European Council of June 1999, the Union has been implementing a European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) under the aegis of Javier Solana, High Representative for CFSP and future EU Minister for Foreign Affairs. www.iss-eu.org /public/content/bookse.html

2004-09-09 Annotated agenda for the informal meeting of Defence Ministers of the European Union on 17 September 2004 The specific objectives that should be achieved under the Dutch Presidency with regard to defence comprise the transition of SFOR to an EU-led mission in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the strengthening of European military capabilities and putting the European Defence Agency into operation. The Agency is also to promote further multinational cooperation and prevent the fragmentation of the European defence efforts. The Agency will be tasked with monitoring the strengthening of capabilities, and in that respect must, for instance, evaluate the military contributions pledged by the EU member states. www.mindef.nl /nieuws/parlement/brieven/20040909_annotatedagenda.html

EU: Steering board of the European Defence Agency meets for the first time - Europainformationen des EUD Internet Online Teams der Europa-Union Furthermore, the Agency is to promote further multinational cooperation and prevent the fragmentation of the European defence efforts. The steering board of the European Defence Agency (EDA) meets for the first time this morning under the chairmanship of the High Representative of the EU, Dr Javier Solana. EU: Steering board of the European Defence Agency meets for the first time - Europainformationen des EUD Internet Online Teams der Europa-Union www.europa-web.de /europa/03euinf/10counc/eurodefe.htm

defence In April 2004, European defence ministers agreed that, by 2007, the EU should be able to use nine 'battle groups', each consisting of 1,500 troops, and deployable within two weeks. The agency's initial impact on EU defence is likely to be small, but it could make a real difference in the medium to long run. European governments need to make a searching assessment of the kinds of additional tasks they want their armies to perform, alongside traditional peacekeeping. www.cer.org.uk /defence

Nato Review First, the establishment of a European Defence Agency to "support the member states in their effort to improve European defence capabilities in the field of crisis management" was finally agreed last year. Moreover, huge progress has been made in the realm of security and defence since the launch of the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) in the wake of the 1998 St Malo meeting between French President Jacques Chirac and UK Prime Minister Tony Blair. It was also the year that the European Union launched both its first peacekeeping operation and its first police missions in the Balkans, paving the way for the European Union to take responsibility from NATO for peacekeeping in Bosnia and Herzegovina at the end of last year. www.nato.int /docu/review/2005/issue2/english/military.html

European Defence - European Union 4 To oversee the development of the defence capabilities of EU member states, the European Defence Agency (EDA) was established on 12 July 2004. Within the EU command structures, the European Council is directly responsible for authorising the deployment of the forces, while the Political and Security Committee (PSC) provides political control and strategic direction. One of the major difficulties for the EU is shrinking defence budgets among its member states. www.european-defence.co.uk /directory/eu04.html

EUbusiness - Green light for European Defence Agency The Agency is ascribed four functions, relating to: defence capabilities development; armaments co-operation; the European defence technological and industrial base and defence equipment market; research and technology,' reads a Council statement. At a General Affairs and External Relations Council meeting on 14 June, EU foreign ministers gave the green light for the creation of a European Defence Agency (EDA) to coordinate the bloc's fragmented defence industry. The task of the EDA will be to coordinate hardware purchases, promote European defence research and end Europe's long tradition of duplication in armaments research, development and procurement. www.eubusiness.com /topics/European_Council/EUNews.2004-06-16.5933

European Defence - The Path to European Defence Within the European Parliament, there is a large majority for the necessity of a European Defence. After the Internal Market and the introduction of the euro, the European Union (EU) is making the decisive steps towards the next large project on the way to European unification, which is European defence. The draft of a European Security Strategy presented by Javier Solana in June 2003 is a good step towards a European Foreign and Security Policy, which will be able to guarantee the security of the European citizens and to defend the interests of the EU in the world. www.european-defence.co.uk /eurodefbook.html

New European defence agency EU defence ministers agreed on Monday to set up a European defence agency. British defence minister Geoff Hoon insisted that the agency would not lead to a "buy European" policy in defence equipment - despite the American Congress recently passing a law mandating a "buy American" policy. As a European defence minister, I recognise that Congress have taken this particular decision but it's not one that I particularly approve of. www.zen19725.zen.co.uk /weblog/art_68.html

EU Referendum The Times seems to have woken up to the existence of the European Defence Agency (EDA), which we reported on last November. As for the EDA, with a current €20 million budget, and a staff which is only set to rise to 77 personnel, the capability of this agency is necessarily limited. He is sure that "we can go a long way applying all the separate defence lines across Europe more coherently," specifically by boosting Europe’s "defence, technological and industrial base" by co-ordinating the military activity of EU members. eureferendum.blogspot.com /2005/03/fantasy-politics.html

Agency urges more efficient European defence industry The European defence industry could be guided into further consolidation by efficiency studies expected to be undertaken by the new European Defence Agency (EDA). Alexander Nicoll, senior fellow for defence industry and procurement at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, says the Eurofighter consortium's four final assembly lines are an example of inefficiencies in an unconsolidated European industry. The agency, set to be agreed on by European governments next month, will act as a "systems integration house" for joint procurement deals involving European Union countries. www.flightinternational.com /FALANDING_182052.htm

WEU Assembly Report 1623E POLARM is composed of the permanent representatives to the European Union of the foreign affairs ministries, accompanied by defence ministry experts, of the 15 EU member countries (including the 10 member states of WEU which are also members of WEAG). Clearly, then, for there to be joint European development, a number of countries must cooperate on major armaments programmes, which in turn is highly conducive to the emergence of a European defence industry. European governments are frequently faced with a difficult choice between buying American equipment for reasons of cost, or producing their own armaments in order to preserve their autonomy in the field of strategic technologies and supply sources, in many cases at considerable extra cost. www.fas.org /man/dod-101/sys/ac/row/e-1623.htm

News: Europe will manage NH-90 France, Germany and Italy are already members of OCCAR, an agency set up in 1996 to coordinate procurement and manage common defence programmes across European borders. OCCAR currently manages a handful of European defence programmes including the Tiger helicopter, the Milan, Hot and Roland missiles and the MRAV armoured vehicle. Putting the NATO-led project under a strictly European agency could raise eyebrows within the United States, the official said. www.helis.com /news/2000/nh90euro.htm

EUbusiness - New EU arms agency should avoid "buy European" approach: Hoon The agency was set to be approved Monday by EU defence ministers for launch next year, to help the bloc's member states coordinate their purchases of military hardware. "As a European defence minister, I recognise that Congress have taken this particular decision but it's not one that I particularly approve of," Hoon said. The US Congress last week approved a 401 billion dollar (340 billion euro) defence bill for the 2004 fiscal year that requires the government to buy 50 percent of its military supplies from US contractors. www.eubusiness.com /afp/031117155234.78e7u6tf

Assembly of WEU : Press releases Paris, 1 December — The WEU Assembly on Tuesday advocated the creation of a “space” division in the European Defence Agency in order to deal, in liaison with the European Space Agency, with the specific requirements of space-based systems for the ESDP. Regretting the fact that European cooperation in the field of defence space capabilities suffers from “duplication of effort and the fragmentation of financial and technical resources” the Assembly recommends the development of “a policy of interoperability and of exchanging capacities between existing European space-based systems”. It scrutinises European intergovernmental activities in all areas of security and defence including armaments cooperation. www.assemblee-ueo.org /en/presse/cp/2004/39.html

The new European Defence Agency - getting above t Since the intention to create a European Defence Agency, under the control of Member States, was announced by European leaders at Thessaloniki in June 2003, Europe's machinery has moved at remarkable speed to develop the concept. The opportunity at the coming European Council to establish the European Defence Agency with resources to match its challenge must not be missed. At the European level, they can do it by making firm commitments to fully support the Agency and let it make a real difference. www.thalesgroup.com /home/home_dyna/1_7723_357_10704.html

Inter Press Service News Agency EUROPE: Common Defence Makes Historic Headway Sanja Romic BRUSSELS, Jan 7 (IPS) - The mid-December European summit in Brussels brought a watershed agreement on EU defence despite the failure to agree a new constitution. The new challenge for the EU is the achievement of defence power status and enhancement of EU unity while reaffirming the EU-U.S. transatlantic partnership. This plan proposed by Germany and France envisages an independent European headquarters separate from NATO, and the utilisation of NATO's resources in conducting military operations ”taking into account in particular the Alliance's role, capacities, and involvement in the region in question.” Outgoing NATO chief Lord Robertson welcomed the agreement between the European three. www.ipsnews.net /africa/sendnews.asp?idnews=21807

Malta to participate in EU Defence Agency The decision for the creation of the European Defence Agency was taken by the June 2003 Thessaloniki European Council, and is subject to the Council's authority and open to participation. Thus the agency will direct its work on: developing defence capabilities in the field of crisis management; promoting and impoving EU armaments cooperation; strengthening the EU's defence industrial and technological base, and the European defence equipment market; and developing research and technology. The Steering Board which will be the decision-making body of the agency will consist of one representative from each participating state -- the Minister of Defence or his representative. www.di-ve.com /dive/portal/portal.jhtml?id=143288&pid=null

[A-List] EU integration struggles: military policy UK and France disagree on role of arms agency By Judy Dempsey in Brussels Financial Times: May 18 2004 Europe's two most important military powers are at loggerheads over the role of a new armaments agency, set up earlier this year to shape European defence. Britain and France, which have increasingly worked together to push forward the European Union's defence and security policy, yesterday conceded they had very different views over how the meagre funding for the armaments agency should be spent. Britain, however, wants the agency to be used for improving military capabilities and would prefer leasing equipment that would remain necessary for some time, given the EU's serious shortfalls in military capabilities. lists.econ.utah.edu /pipermail/a-list/2004-May/030550.html

Industry News - EU approves €25m defence agency The EU Foreign Affairs Council has consented to launch later this year the European Defence Agency to shape the bloc's protection policy. "The European Defence Agency is a badly needed focal point," said Sir Peter Ricketts, Britain's permanent representative to NATO. The overall aim of the EDA will be to promote unity in the currently fragmented European defence procurement. www.serco.com /media/industrynews/ItemPage.asp?ItemID=2656916

European Defence Agency Briefs Industry On Long-Endurance UAV Needs The European Defence Agency has briefed more than 50 European industrial companies on two critical technology areas for long-endurance Unmanned Air Vehicles (LE-UAVs) for which it intends to contract initial technology demonstration studies by the end of the year. ESA Portal Reports are copyright European Space Agency. The meeting in Brussels on 6 July, organised by the Agency's Research & Technology Directorate, was a major milestone in the EDA's work on LE-UAVs, one of its four flagship programmes for 2005. www.spacewar.com /news/uav-05zzzb.html

FD - Norway ready to agree to administrative arrangements with the European Defence Agency (EDA) (3 March 2005) Defence Minister Kristin Krohn Devold declares that Norway is ready to agree to administrative arrangements between the European Defence Agency and the Ministry of Defence of The Kingdom of Norway, establishing a basis for practical cooperation.  Negotiations have been concluded between the Head of the European Defence Agency and the Norwegian Ministry of Defence. A point of contact will be established on the Agency's staff and MOD Norway will designate a liaison officer at the mission of Norway to the EU. odin.dep.no /fd/engelsk/aktuelt/news/010091-210002/dok-bu.html

talkeuro.com : European Constitution (UK): Article III-311 The European Defence Agency shall be open to all Member States wishing to be part of it. (European Defence Agency), established by Article I-41(3) and subject to the authority of the Council, Council, acting by a qualified majority, shall adopt a European decision defining the Agency's statute, talkeuro.com /uk/iii_v_ii_2/article_iii311

News Archive EU agree to set up defence angency The agency will be focused on "developing defence capabilities in the field of crisis management, promoting and enhancing European armaments cooperation, strengthening the European defence industrial and technological base and creating a competitive European defence equipment market", according to the Presidency conclusions from Thessaloniki. At the EU summit in Thessaloniki EU leaders agreed to set up a defence agency, during the course of 2004, in the field of "defence capabilities development, research, acquisition and armaments." The decision however, establishes an important link between defence and the Union's research activities. www.truthtv.org /newstext.asp?newsid=1416

ARCHIVE OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION - "European Defence Agency and Security Research Programme: Would EU defence industrial policy improve European security?" Common European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) of European Union which took off after the St. Malo Franco-British summit in 1998 has gathered momentum in Councils in Helsinki, Laeken, Thessaloniki, cuminating in the creation of European Defence Agency (EDA). Meanwhile, the increasing attention to the security issues encouraged the Commission to initiate European Security Research Programmes (ESRP) within the framework of Research and Development policy. European Union Studies Association (EUSA) : Biennial Conference : 2005 (9th), March 31-April 2, 2005 aei.pitt.edu /archive/00003035

Assembly of WEU NATO Deputy Secretary-General Minuto Rizzo urges broader cooperation with EU A central role for the European Defence Agency in transatlantic cooperation? President De Decker: “Governments should not denounce modified Brussels Treaty until the European Constitution containing an acceptable mutual defence clause is ratified and proper interparliamentary oversight of ESDP by national parliaments is established” Call for greater European solidarity in the face of terrorist threats of mass destruction www.assembly-weu.org /en/presse/cp/communiques_2004.html

Third Defence Industry Conference Prospects for - and significance of - the new European Defence Agency With the proposed US DoD budget for fiscal year 2004 is in excess of US$380 billion this session will explore how European defence manufacturers can gain access to this notoriously difficult market and will address: Clarification of government support for defence manufacturers' export campaigns in the UK The simplification of measures which companies have to undertake to comply with complex government export control regulations and procedures. www.janes.com /defence/conference/dic2005/programme.shtml

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