On Friday 18 October, NATO Secretary General, Mark Rutte, announced that the defence ministers of the allied countries had agreed a new initiative on normalisation.
“Under this initiative, we will accelerate the development of NATO standards, improve their implementation rate and extend their scope to include new innovative military capabilities”, he explained at the end of a two-day meeting in Brussels. According to Mr Rutte, it is necessary to make the most of the Allies’ “unique...