First-ever talks: Pentagon completing integration of EU into transatlantic military network
U.S. and European Union officials are preparing a new meeting later this month officials hope will tie the two global players closer together on defense.
The event is meant to open an additional trans-Atlantic channel on security matters and complement similar communications already happening via NATO, officials have said. Having such a forum specifically for the trade-minded European Union would energize the bloc’s defense ambitions and signal Washington’s link to the continent on yet another level, the thinking goes. Speaking at the Atlantic Council think tank earlier this month, Charles Fries, a senior official at the EU diplomatic service, said the “dialogue on security and defense” would happen later in April in Brussels.
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