Talk:Common Security and Defence Policy

Merge: European Security and Defence Identity
*Oppose - the article is by far long enough with enough references to exist a  stand-alone page.--Kudpung (talk) 08:27, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Merge -I agree with merge of European Security and Defence Identity into European Security and Defence Policy proposed two months ago (feb) by User:Paul111 -JLogan 11:07, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Maastricht treaty
This argument with the Maastricht Treaty is not true. This citation does not occur in the treaty. I only found it in a strategic industry report. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.119.156.129 (talk) 17:52, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

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rewrite needed
Could someone who knows more about this topic please update it in the light of the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty? --Red King (talk) 22:35, 24 November 2009 (UTC)


 * I know more, but unfortunately, although specific titles and identities have been designated (such as the EU President and Foreign Policy Chief), what role these positions will actually play will be determined over the course of the next year or two. The EU president may try to make certain moves which could be blocked by the EU heads of state, for example - effectively closing that door to him (or her in the future).Airborne84 (talk) 05:18, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Merge: Military of the European Union
I have proposed that we merge the Military of the European Union with this article. Reason - There is no current Military of the EU, only a Common Security and Defence Policy also out-lined in the Lisbon Treaty. Therefore any article suggesting there is an actual military of the EU is simply wrong and misleading. It is also highly political as many nations oppose an EU military. Wikipedia should try and stick to actual truth and not include articles on a EU military that don’t even exist. As the Military of the European Union doesn’t exist I would propose much of the information is moved to its relevant places in the Common Security and Defence Policy. This way the useful information is kept and Wikipedia remains politically correct. After all even suggesting that an EU military exists is going against the Lisbon Treaty and may insult people. It may also suggest EU nations have lost sovereignty over their armed forces, which is not the case. Recon.Army (talk) 13:36, 15 April 2010 (UTC)


 * If you  feel stongly  about  it, and no response has neen made since your various suggestions on this and  on Talk:Military of the European Union there is no  reason  why  you  should not  WP:BOLD and do  it.


 * I agree completely. But there was a proposal delete the MoEU article and the conclusion was KEEP, but only for want of a consensus that it should be deleted.  Most of those in favour of keeping seemed to want to see some reflection of CSDP forces: it seems to me that your proposal does that.  I suggest the best way forward is to create a draft version of the combined article - call it CSDP (draft) or similar - then invite comments before making it live. --Red King (talk) 11:53, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
 * I strongly oppose this. There are many forces that revolve around the defence of the EU, but aren't part of the CSDP. Drafting a nameless article will probably lead nowhere. The CSDP should have its own article. The MoEU article discusses all aspects of EU defence integration. - SSJ t 13:55, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

Pentagon HQ, EU HQ and NATO HQ
The article mentions the American viewpoint known as the three D's "[...]American expectations towards ESDP to this day: no duplication of what was done effectively under NATO, no decoupling from the US and NATO, and no discrimination against non-EU members such as Turkey[...]"

Since this American viewpoint has been one principal obstacle for European military integration since 1954 when the Brussel Treaty on the West European Union (WEU) were changed due to the emerging NATO (check the original WEU Treaties at http://www.weu.int), it needs in this article context be clarified that the Americans themselves have "a duplication of what is effectively done under NATO".

In other words, the inconsistency of this American negative viewpoint "the three D's" on a fully-fledged EU Operational Headquarters needs to be mentioned.

The US Military have two levels, the Union (USA) level, and the Alliance (NATO) level. Whilst Europe have three military levels: State level, Union level (EU), and Alliance level (NATO).

The point being that within the American counterpart of the EU, the political union called USA, the fifty American Member States themselves have a duplicate Operational Headquarter (OHQ) for planning, command, control and conduct of the armed forces of those fifty states. This OHQ is known to the world as Pentagon - the United States Military Headquarters.

Therefore, the union of the fifty American states have dual OHQs, one at the Union level (USA) and one at the Atlantic Alliance level (NATO).

But at the same time the Americans interfere with European internal Policy (ESDI/ESDP/CSDP) when, as in the qoute above, demanding no duplication (the three D's) on the Union level in Europe (EU), pointing at there already being a wellfunctioning OHQ in place on the alliance (NATO) level, as if that would interfere with the Union level in Europe, but not in America.

The European Union is a political Union of 27 states with 500 million citizens, wheareas the USA is a political union of 50 states with 300 million citizens. Both sets of Member States, the EU27 and the US50, have both a Union level and an Alliance level, where the Alliance level shares resources between the component states of the two allied political unions of America and Europe. The main difference between the two allied entities is that the USA have declared its independence whilst the EU has not. Yet. Now, the lack of a fully fledged European "Pentagon" is one of the last hurdles which obviously is being blocked by such American viewpoints as the three D's. These viewpoints not only influences NATO (Alliance level), but it influences American friendly European states, such as Britain (State level), within the alliance and the European political union, in essence interfering with internal European policies.

From that background such US expressions can only be interpreted as interference, hostile or not, with European domestic affairs.

As a matter of fact, the Americans are with this position confusing the Union level (EU) with the Alliance level (NATO). On the other hand, the Europeans do not interfere with the way the 50 States of the American union (USA) choose to organize their military forces on the union level (Pentagon).

It needs to be emphasized to the world that the European member state of the United Kingdom is the State in Europe who employs such from America unindepedent viewpoints in Europe as have been expressed by the American three D standpoint above. This British official reluctance have been mapped in a scientific report at http://www.iss.europa.eu/uploads/media/Planning_for_EU_military_operations.pdf

There should of course be an EU operational HQ in Europe (Belgium) independent of NATO, just as Pentagon in America (Virginia) operates independent of NATO. Those two sovereign entities, America and Europe, would then constitute the major powers, one seat each, within the old Alliance (NATO). 83.177.143.51 (talk) 23:01, 22 October 2010 (UTC)


 * I don't really think it is our job (as Wikipedia editors) to evaluate the consistency of American policy or judge whether it constitutes interference. The same applies to the motivation behind the policy of EU members and the political expediency of an EU operational HQ in Europe with regard to establishing a notional "sovereign" Europe. If the EUISS adopts an official position on the matter, that might be notable. --Boson (talk) 12:47, 23 October 2010 (UTC)


 * I think if more than one WP:RS documenting the criticism of US policy toward European defense along the lines mentioned above by significant numbers of the European defense community can be found, they should be cited. We shouldn't however, indulge in WP:SYNTH and add such material - unless prominent sources in the US or European defense and foreign policy community have commented on the issue.
 * I'd also like to add that the fourth paragraph is not entirely right. US-European military structure is actually closer to symmetric than stated, with state and territorial militias comprising the National Guard of the United States at roughly the same level as state-level militaries in the EU (although weapons and materiel procurement is standardized by the US Army and Air Force across National Guards), the Union level (the active-duty and reserve components of the United States Armed Forces), and alliance level (NATO and other regional cooperative military efforts in which the US is active).
 * If more than the "Planning for EU Military Operations" document can be located to show the views the OP raises are held across the European defense and foreign policy community, then we ought to read them and see if a consensus can be reached. loupgarous (talk) 04:09, 10 June 2018 (UTC)

EU OHQ
The article mentions the small operations centre.

"From 1 January 2007, the EU Operations Centre began work in Brussels. It can command a limited size force of about 2000 troops (e.g. a battlegroup).

In addition to the EU centre, 5 national operational headquarters have been made available for use by the Union; Mont Valérien in Paris, Northwood in London, Potsdam, Centocelle in Rome and Larissa. For example, Operation Artemis used Mont Valérien as its OHQ and EUFOR's DR Congo operation uses Potsdam. The EU can also use NATO capabilities.[8]"

The mentioned EU operations centre is far from a real functioning Operational Headquarters at the union level. Indeed, it has shown itself to be insufficient, even with the Berlin Plus agreement. There is a command gap in the current military organization. There exists a politico-strategic command, but not the lower next step, the military-strategic command for planning and C2 (command and control). Borrowing NATO's military-strategic command is simply not sufficient. This all according to the following research from the ISS:

http://www.iss.europa.eu/uploads/media/Planning_for_EU_military_operations.pdf

In another report from the European Parliament the civ-mil relations is pointed out, alongside the need for a real EU Operational HQ (military-strategic command) due to the actual flaws of the current "no duplication" state proposed by Britain and the US, and the lack of civ-mil competencies in the framework nations, and other flaws which only can be solutioned with a proper EU military-strategic command, i.e an EU military headquarter (EU OHQ). The current operations centre is not an EU OHQ, but merely a possibillity to ad hoc set up an OHQ by borrowing NATO's or member states' OHQs, whilst the Union needs a permanent HQ structure:

http://tepsa.be/Hynek%20Consolidating%20the%20EUs%20Crisis%20Management%20Structures.pdf

The next link is an actual political motion to the EU Parliament, discussing these topics. This is real contemporary politics to be discussed on october 26th, 2010:

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2009_2014/documents/afet/pr/829/829289/829289en.pdf

83.177.143.51 (talk) 01:57, 23 October 2010 (UTC)


 * If a more permanent OHQ with more staff and money is actually set up, that might merit a mention, if it is widely recognized as a change in policy, but I'm not sure this motion by the EP is particularly noteworthy (for an encyclopedia), even if the motion is passed. --Boson (talk) 13:05, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

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Merge
I propose that the entire article Military of the European Union is merged into the Common Security and Defence Policy article for the following reasons:
 * "Military of the European Union" is a slightly misleading/premature title that could be considered original research (OR); as Article 42.2 puts it: "[The common security and defence policy] will lead to a common defence, when the European Council, acting unanimously, so decides.". While I do agree that "Military of the EU" also could be interpreted more widely as "all sorts of military structures and capacities on the EU's territory", I do think that a well-established (treaty-based, non-OR) title such as CSDP should be the preferred title encyclopedically. Besides, the EU's recent terminology is this: "A Security and Defence Union in the making". Wikipedia should have a unified CSDP article describing the status quo until the EU declares that this Security and Defence Union is a reality - then we might consider a renaming of the article.
 * Both articles are mediocre and in need of update at present; maintaining a single article will be easier.
 * The subjects of the two articles have practically 100 % overlap, and no content needs to be excluded in a new article; just a little rewording is required.
 * The following recent developments do in my view justify that an overview of national copacities, as is currently shown in Military of the European Union, is relevant content in a unified CSDP article:
 * Article 42.6 of TEU: The Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) initiated by most member states last year.
 * The mutual defence clause in TEU, introduced by the Treaty of Lisbon; Article 42.7: "If a Member State is the victim of armed aggression on its territory, the other Member States shall have towards it an obligation of aid and assistance by all the means in their power".
 * Article 42.3 of TEU explains why also information on multinational forces such as Eurocorps, presently covered in this section of "Military of the European Union", should also be moved to a single CSDP article: "Member States shall make civilian and military capabilities available to the Union for the implementation of the common security and defence policy, to contribute to the objectives defined by the Council. Those Member States which together establish multinational forces may also make them available to the common security and defence policy."

Thoughts? - Ssolbergj (talk) 20:27, 7 February 2018 (UTC)


 * I agree for merge because of the point 42.7.They are several armies but mutual defence clause is main.Thanks.LittleOx (talk) 13:17, 8 February 2018 (UTC)
 * No further response in 3 months. Merged now. - Ssolbergj (talk) 15:02, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
 * I disagree. The MoEU page is about the actual military of the EU member states that make up the total forces in the EU. The article is still relevant and should not be deleted. Saying there is no military in the EU would be misleading and not true. - Jeleva (Jeleva) 15:09, 22 September 2019 (UTC)

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Outdated map
Should the map of the EU in the 'deployments' section be updated to remove the UK? Or is it supposed to be that way to retrospectively acknowledge Britain's past involvement or something? I've not read the ins and outs of the Brexit deal, but I'm sure it would involve leaving the CSDP. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.28.92.103 (talk) 19:38, 12 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Caption says 'interventions since 2002', so it is reasonably accurate as it stands – it also includes countries that didn't participate and countries that weren't members back in 2002.
 * I guess someone sometime might get round to doing a new map of interventions since 2020 but I wouldn't hold my breath. --Red King (talk) 10:49, 13 March 2020 (UTC)

Outdated Venn diagram?
Should https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:European_defence_integration.svg be updated to remove the UK from the CSDP? Unfortunately I do not have the technical expertise to do so.Alekksandr (talk) 23:01, 18 July 2020 (UTC)

How to handle the MRTT shared with multiple EU countries
I added a new row in the "Aerial refueling and transport" section for the shared planes operating under EU command. I don't know if this is the correct way to handle this, so please do come with ideas if you have some. My thinking behind this was: Seeing as how there are probably going to be more shared vehicles in the future a separate row might be handy for those. As this is also a page that explains the EU combined military capabilities it fits in quite nicely, but again, do change if you think you have a better idea. — Preceding unsigned comment added by HVDT (talk • contribs) 13:48, 17 February 2021 (UTC)

use armed forces template?
Armed forces sounds like it could be useful here, so many flagicons... --Joy &#91;shallot&#93; (talk) 01:55, 4 September 2021 (UTC)

EU Forces?
Surely it is nonsense (and misleading) to claim the EU has nuclear weapons. One member has and some others have US weapons on their territory. Similarly, the EU does not have 49 submarines nor any of the other claims made here. The EU cannot command deployment of any of them which is surely the common understanding of "owning" a force. Member states may cooperate and provide equipment (but not nuclear weapons), for EU-wide actions but they ultimately decide, not the EU. 82.17.68.3 (talk) 12:33, 2 September 2022 (UTC)

Referencing error
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"EU Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP" listed at Redirects for discussion
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Incomprehensible table
The table in the history section is completely incomprehensible to me. I don't know what it is even trying to explain, but some of the text is rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise, and the table itself runs well off of the page. This table also has no sources whatsoever. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gödel2200 (talk • contribs) 23:45, 21 March 2024 (UTC)