Munich, 07/02/2006 (Agence Europe) - During the annual conference on security in Madrid, the French defence minister, Michele Alliot-Marie, called for the development of EU defence capacities “so as to enable it to be an autonomous player and to strengthen the European pillar of the Atlantic Alliance”. She said this depends on the ability to define a new partnership between the EU and North America. “Each of our pillars has specific trumps: particular links with this or that region,...