14/12/2018 (Agence Europe) – On Friday 14 December, the European Council welcomed the "significant progress" made in recent months in the field of security and defence. In their view, all the EU's latest initiatives - permanent structured cooperation, military mobility, the European Defence Industrial Development Programme, the European Defence Fund and the Civilian CSDP Compact(see EUROPE 12158) - "contribute to increasing the EU's strategic autonomy and capacity to act as a security...