The Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe (DSACEUR), Sir James Rupert Everard, warned on Tuesday 19 February that the EU is short on military resources.
“The EU lacks muscle”, he stressed at a hearing in the European Parliament's Subcommittee on Defence. He called for the promotion and protection of the ‘Berlin Plus’ mechanism. This mechanism, signed in 2002, provides the EU with access to NATO's planning capabilities and capability recovery. “It works very well”, according to...