The goal of strategic autonomy in defence, put forward in the EU’s 2016 Global Strategy, has sparked a somewhat abstract debate, often fuelled by doubts and fears, on what it means in practice and how it would impact NATO and the transatlantic relationship. In the following article, the European Defence Agency (EDA) Chief Executive Jorge Domecq argues that strategic autonomy is too important an ambition to be flogged to death in endless theoretical talk on its end-goal. What counts, he says, are practical steps allowing the EU to move closer towards this goal.
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