The High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, explained on Friday 1 October that the EU’s strategic autonomy had “nothing to do with NATO”.
In his view, a complementary military capability was needed to make NATO stronger and more balanced. “What is missing, is a better political balance within NATO. If that were there, what happened in Afghanistan and the Pacific could have been avoided”, said Mr Borrell in a discussion at the World...