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Defence Security

The ESDP in a nutshell

By Nicolas Gros-Verheyde | 28 October 2008

The European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) is undoubtedly one of the areas in which the European Union has made the most progress in the last ten years or so. But this dynamism has been achieved at the price of a certain amount of discretion and 'complexity'. As a high-level European diplomat...

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