Determining the starting level of ambition by mid-November for the further development of Defence Europe is the main difficulty confronting EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini, after she consulted EU defence ministers in Bratislava on Tuesday 27 September on their ideas on how to deliver the security and defence strand of the overall EU strategy (see EUROPE 11581).
Several set out their ideas in informal documents on how to translate Defence...