The EU Global Strategy is crystal clear on
the EU’s political level of ambition yet
remarkably silent on the corresponding
military level of ambition. But strategy
without capabilities is just a
hallucination. Recent developments in
the EU make it possible, however, for the
Member States to agree on an
appropriate and affordable military level
of ambition. The aim: to conduct
autonomous crisis management
operations and to contribute substantially
to territorial defence within the NATO
framework. We should not forget that the
European countries have the primary
responsibility for the territorial defence of
their own continent