Breaking Ranks - The Challenge of EU Defence Integration to the United Kingdom

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Table of Contents

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• About the Authors 3
• Foreword 4
• Summary 6
• Glossary 8
• Introduction 9
• State of play: UK-EU defence and security cooperation 9
• The emergence of EU “strategic autonomy” 11
• UK foreign policy and the national interest 12
• EU defence integration: a brief history 14
• The post-war beginnings of defence harmonisation 14
• Davignon to the Single European Act: 1970 to 1986 15
• End of the Century: building a common foreign policy 16
• The Constitution for Europe and the Lisbon Treaty 17
• A strategic departure from NATO? 18
• The European Defence Fund, PESCO and research coordination 19
• Ukraine, the Versailles Declaration, and the EU Strategic Compass 21
• EU foreign and defence policy and core defence structures 24
• The UK, NATO, Europe, and the EU – the challenge of priorities 29
• EU treaty provisions and the challenge to NATO 29
• PESCO: a platform for EU defence 30
• Qualified Majority Voting (QMV) in EU defence and foreign policy: towards centralised control 32
• Protectionism: the implications of an EU defence-industrial base 34
• Foundations of EU defence procurement 34
• Third-party exclusion 35
• The European Defence Industrial Strategy (EDIS) 37
• The Direction of Travel 38
• A UK-EU defence pact? 39
• Conclusion and Recommendations 42
• Bibliography 44