2018 was an important year for European defence capability prioritisation as the revised Capability Development Plan (CDP) was approved in June by EDA’s Steering Board in Capability Directors’ composition. Deriving from the new CDP, 11 EU Capability Development Priorities were defined, covering ...
Back in 2012, when NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said that “there is a price to pay for security, but the cost of insecurity can be much higher,” there were few who fully grasped just how accurate his warning was. For many years, European defence budgets have largely been spiralli...
The European Defence Agency collects defence data on an annual basis. The Ministries of Defence of the Agency’s 26 participating Member States (all EU Member States except Denmark) provide the data. EDA acts as the custodian of the data and publishes the aggregated figures in this booklet. The d...
Since 2016, the European Union has developed a number of new initiatives on security and defence. In particular, the introduction of Permanent Structured Cooperation and the European Defence Fund have been designed to allow the EU to become a more autonomous actor with regard to crisis managemen...