European intervention initiative
| European intervention initiative EI2 |
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 Members of the EI2 |
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| English name | European Intervention Initiative |
| Organization type | Regional military cooperation |
| Seat of the organs | Paris |
| Member States | 10 (November) |
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The European intervention initiative ( english European intervention initiative - EI2) is a planned, purely European military alliance.
France , Germany , Great Britain , Belgium , Spain , Portugal , Denmark , the Netherlands and Estonia gave the go-ahead for planning on June 25, 2018 in Luxembourg .
The European intervention initiative is intended to enable a faster military response in crisis situations through significantly closer cooperation between the general staffs. Another source says the opposite:
"(EI2) ... does not include the creation of a new rapid reaction force, but is an initiative to create a" flexible, non-binding forum "of states that are" ready and able "to defend European security interests if necessary, it says in the letter of intent. "
The remarkable thing about the initiative is the accession of Great Britain, because this country is not represented in the much larger PESCO. There is also the question of how the country will behave if it soon leaves the EU as a whole, as initiated in November 2018.
Finland signed the EI2's Letter of Intent in November 2018 ; According to the Finnish view, this declaration of intent should gain weight in the future through a memorandum of understanding . The government emphasizes that the president and a national council of ministers for foreign and security policy have approved the letter. This remark is important because participation in military alliances in the country is always viewed critically.
See also
- PESCO , another European military activity with most of the EU countries excluding the UK, since November 2017
Web links
- "Letter of Intent between the defense ministers of Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom concerning the development of the European Intervention Initiative EI2" , summary on the pages of the British House of Commons, with a link to the original document (both in English)
- The European Intervention Initiative EI2. Why participating is the right decision for Germany . By Christian Mölling, Claudia Major, DGAP -Kompakt 10, June 14, 2018 (full text: open the link to the pdf, individualized download)
Individual evidence
- ^ Deutsche Welle: Nine EU countries are planning a military alliance
- ↑ Source, Federal Agency for Civic Education BpB, dated September 21, 2018
- ↑ Finnish Ministry of War, November 6, 2018