{"id":6619,"date":"2021-07-09T10:47:57","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T10:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eurodefense.pt\/?p=6619"},"modified":"2023-02-20T18:09:57","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T18:09:57","slug":"pesco-advantages-and-disadvantages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eurodefense.pt\/pesco-advantages-and-disadvantages\/","title":{"rendered":"PESCO: advantages and disadvantages"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The view of a European defence union emerged in the aftermath of the Second World War. The first and most promising shot to achieve it was the European Defence Community (EDC), yet, it failed in 1954 due to resistance in the French National Assembly and the general strategic situation in Europe. The NATO framework, already established by that time and seen as more solid, prevailed. Envisioned as a transatlantic concern ever since, collective security could therefore no longer serve as a catalyst of European integration. Instead, collective prosperity emerged as the basic rationale behind the unification project[1]<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PESCO is a practical EU framework that allows Member States to follow cooperation among each other on concrete projects in the area of defence and security. 25 Member States joined PESCO and have agreed to necessary commitments. So far 47 projects were put forward by a group of Member States and adopted by the Council[2]<\/span><\/a>. This permanent structured cooperation of 25 EU Members aims to harmonize military equipment and organization, to promote joint procurement, deployments, and exercises and to create a single European armament market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was institutionalized by the Lisbon Treaty on December 13 2007 with the aim of establishing and strengthening a permanent structured cooperation in European Union. PESCO is, therefore, a more advanced instrumental frame in the EU to supply options about how to develop priority defence capacities, to promote defence cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The aim of PESCO is to advance the strategic autonomy of Europe. Strategic autonomy can be conceived in an absolute \u2013 as a condition \u2013 or in a relative \u2013 way as a process. It is an abstract concept and it constitutes a break with the globalization-friendly approaches. In practice, strategic autonomy is to be stimulated through constant deepening of institutional and technological interoperability among predominantly nationally organized armament markets and armed forces. Both dimensions of interoperability can be conceived as practical-technical issues, which means to be managed at the interdepartmental and industrial level. However, the more ambitious the project becomes, the more political importance it acquires[3]<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PESCO should provide the creation of a clear full spectrum force combination which could accelerate the provision of forces and should fill progressively the existing moat on the EU Battlegroups and the highest level of ambition on the Grand Global Strategy of the EU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PESCO\u2019s advantages<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n