Western European Union

The arrangements are called after a 1996 NATO Foreign Ministers meeting in Berlin when they declared that they were willing to facilitate “the use of separable but not separate military capabilities in operations led by the Western European Union”. At their 1999 Washington Summit, building on the Berlin ...

Vahlas has held several roles with NATO including Political Advisor for the NATO Stabilisation Force in Bosnia-and-Herzegovina; NATO observer to the Western European Union Parliamentary Assembly; Chief Political Advisor to the Commander of NATO Headquarters (JFC) in Naples; and Chief Political ...

Vahlas has held several roles with NATO including Political Advisor for the NATO Stabilisation Force in Bosnia-and-Herzegovina; NATO observer to the Western European Union Parliamentary Assembly; Chief Political Advisor to the Commander of NATO Headquarters (JFC) in Naples; and Chief Political ...

Ever since the abortive European Defence Community of 1952 and the underperformed Western European Union of 1955, based on the Brussels Treaty of 1948, European states have tried several times to come up with a joint security and defense structure. Yet this seemingly shared desire was never ...

At a time when the differences between western European Union members' desire to distribute asylum-seekers throughout the bloc and eastern members' refusal to take in any new migrants is straining Brussels, the Austrians' tough stance could create further tensions. “Realistically, migration will continue ...

Meanwhile, the long-defunct Western European Union was formed as a protection against communism. It excluded divided Germany. So at the present time it is only Nato that now includes the re-unified Germany that is relevant. The European Union's intention to form its own army with its 28 member states ...

Before the UK joined the European Community, the Western European Union (WEU) bound key European countries (including the UK) in an entirely European mutual defence alliance. The WEU was established by the Treaty of Brussels, otherwise known as the Treaty of Economic, Social and Cultural ...

June 20, 2017 Luxembourg—Richer western European Union states locked horns with their poorer eastern peers on Tuesday over who should host the bloc's London-based regulators for banking and drugs after Brexit. Several of the 27 remaining EU states have already signaled they could take on the ...

In an effort to combat the growing rift between eastern and western European Union member states, Germany's new Foreign Minister Heiko Maas urged closer ties during a meeting with his Polish counterpart last Friday. Both foreign ministers called for the revival of the Weimar Triangle, a political ...