ESDI: ‘Separable but not separate?’

The development of a European Security and Defence Identity that is 'separable but not separate' from NATO took a new turn at the European Union's Helsinki summit in December 1999. The author argues that the EU's plans to absorb the Western European Union and to create a rapid reaction corps by 2003 raise a tangle of membership issues, as well as questions of a more fundamental nature.

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