The Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service in charge of the Common Security and Defence Policy and Crisis Response, Charles Fries, announced on Tuesday 30 November that a new draft ‘Strategic Compass’ should be presented by mid-January.
Although foreign and defence ministers reacted “very positively” to the first draft compass on 15 November, “there is still a lot of work to be done to have a robust consensus”, he told the European Parliament’s...