Anna Penfrat, policy adviser to the European Peacebuilding Liaison Office (EPLO), a platform of 37 NGOs involved in consolidating peace and preventing violent conflicts, called on Tuesday 19 June for greater involvement for civil society and local populations in planning the civilian missions under the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP).
“It is extremely important to ensure that discussions on planning missions are not solely in the hands of the CSDP players (…), but also those of...