While Member States’ Ambassadors are expected to discuss, on Friday 26 June, the EU Council’s decision on the ‘general conditions for exceptional participation by third States in individual Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) projects’, EUROPE has obtained an EU Council working document, dated 8 June, which takes stock of the negotiations.
In order to participate, according to the draft decision, a non-Member State will have to share “the values on which the EU is founded”...