Paris, 09/06/2000 (Agence Europe) - The WEU Assembly, meeting in Paris, instructed its steering committee to come forward with proposals on an interim European Security and Defence Assembly, which is expected to be created to provide parliamentary scrutiny and transparency in European security and defence policy (see EUROPE of 19 May, p. 5).
The Assembly insisted on the parliamentary dimension of the ESDP, adopting: - the report by Vera Squarcialupi highlighting the need to "compare...