J. Tattersall wrote:Out of interest both CFSP and CSDP are both still intergovernmental too, the European Council having recently not taken up a 'passerelle clause' based approach to introduce limited QMV.Gtal wrote:INSISTED THAT NATO IS THE CORNERSTONE OF EUROPEAN DEFENCE AND FOR EUROPEAN COORDINATION IT WAS TOTALLY ADEQUATE TO HAVE THE WEU WHICH WAS BASED ON WEAK INTERGOVERNMENTALISM
These things take time. But even though the UK left only 18 months ago.
We already have now EU budget money going straight into defence.
Absolutely UNTHINKABLE very recently.
We have direct commission involvement in defence through a new DG Space and Defence.
EDA budget and role is increased as well.
The EU is large and complex and these things take time but
It's clearely already becoming more supranational.
All this while we're dealing with an unprecedented social, health and economic world crisis.
That they're even discussing going for QMV in area of foreignpolicy is proof of how much things are changing.