European Union External Action
The Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) enables the Union to take a leading role in peace-keeping operations, conflict prevention and in the strengthening of the international security. It is an integral part of the EU's comprehensive approach towards crisis management, drawing on civilian and military assets.
Upon special request by EUPOL COPPS Palestinian Territories, the ESDC and the German Federal Police jointly delivered tailor-made in-mission-training on 'Mentoring and Advising in civilian CSDP Missions' from 5 to 9 June 2017 in Ramallah. This training was run as a pilot activity within the ESDC network.
The Strategic Decision-Making Exercise on Cyber Crisis Management within the framework of the European Defence Agency (EDA) was held at the Hellenic Air Force Academy/Dekelia Air Base in Tatoi, near Athens, from May 30 to June 1, 2017. This event is a joint initiative of the Hellenic National Defence General Staff and the EDA.
The new edition of the HANDBOOK ON CSDP was presented on 18 May 2017 at the Foreign Affairs Council on Defence by the defence ministers from Austria and Cyprus. In the meantime, the handbook was distributed in various Council working groups, such as the EU Military Committee (31 May) and the Politico-Military Group (7 June).
'In the past, we may have achieved military victory over insurgent forces, but these victories were often only temporary. We need new approaches and we need to involve more regional forces.' With these words the Italian Minister of Defence, Senator Roberta Pinotti closed the ESDC pilot course 'The New Peacekeeping Operations as a Stabilising Factor for the European Union'. The course ran from 8 to 12 May and took place at the Italian Centre for Higher Defence Studies (CASD) in Rome, bringing together, for the main part of the course, 43 participants from the EU and the UN.
Cooperation on defence is becoming the norm in the European Union, High Representative Federica Mogherini said today.
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