As rhetoric continues, are NATO-EU defence differences too great to be resolved?
With the EU looking to move ever-closer towards the creation of its own de facto military alliance, the role of NATO in European security has been consistently questioned amid internal disputes and a shift in balance of power in light of Brexit.
The UK has reiterated its support for NATO as being the bedrock of Europe’s defence and security needs, with one minister stating that European countries ‘would feel a chill wind’ without a US contribution to the alliance.
Providing evidence to the House of Lords’ EU Security and Justice Sub-Committee on 1 December on the future of UK-EU defence cooperation, Baroness Annabel Goldie, Minister of State at the MoD, stated that 80% of defence investment into NATO now comes from non-EU members.
Goldie told the committee that NATO would ‘continue to be the dominant presence’ in European security, adding that while
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