SECURITY - DEFENCE / Eu-nato

EU not a substitute for NATO, Stoltenberg warns

Brussels, 13/02/2018 (Agence Europe)

On Monday 12 February, the Secretary General of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, reiterated that the EU, which is developing its defence, cannot replace the Alliance.

“There is no way the EU can replace NATO”, he explained at a press conference in Brussels, ahead of the meeting of the defence ministers of the Alliance on 14 and 15 February, at which relations between the EU and NATO and European defence plans will be discussed. The Secretary General of the Alliance stressed that the European...