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The EU and NATO need to invest in our joint partnership and to draw on each side’s unique strength.

In future, the EU also needs to be able to do more on its own:

To provide stability in our neighbourhood

To deal with new and emerging threats; hybrid/cyber attacks, the arms race in space

Because Europe is a unique security provider, with a long history of peacebuilding

The EU is working with NATO on a new EU-NATO Joint Declaration to be presented before the end of 2021

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Presidents Macron and von der Leyen will convene a European Defence Summit in Toulouse under the French EU Presidency – first half of 2022

We have started to develop a European Defence ecosystem.

But what we need is the European Defence Union.

Europe needs to:

improve collective decision-making and

intelligence cooperation

consider waiving VAT when buying European-

made defence equipment

consider its own joint Situational Awareness

Centre

a European Cyber Defence Policy, including legislation

on common standards, under a new European Cyber Resilience Act

improve interoperability – we are investing in common platforms, from fighter jets

to drones to cyber

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