18/04/2012
The European Union Common Security and Defence Policy, while it prepares the next NATO summit in Chicago, where among other issues will be discussed the concepts of NATO Smart Defence and the EU "Pooling and Sharing" of military capabilities, center its comprehensive approach focuses in the arc of instability in the area of the Sahel and the Horn of Africa. While extending the mandate of Operation Atalanta until the end of 2014, it activated first time ever its Operations Center in support of the missions in that part of Africa and endorses the concept of crisis management to start a new civilian mission in the Sahel.
Author: Ignacio José García Sánchez