Inside Europe: EU launches a new era in defence cooperation
Politics
Teri Schultz
November 17, 2017
After years of talking about the need for closer cooperation on security and defense in the European Union, 23 governments have finally signed up to a binding agreement to do that. EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini hailed the move as ‘historic.’ From Brussels, Teri Schultz reports that the new framework will still require an enormous amount of compromise to work - if indeed it does.