Cyprus EU Presidency High Level Seminar on Innovative European Defence Cooperation – Pooling and Consolidating Demand

In association with the European Defence Agency and the Egmont -
Royal Institute for International Relations of Belgium, the Ministry of Defence of Cyprus is organizing a seminar entitled: "Innovative European Defence Cooperation - Pooling and Consolidating Demand."

Reductions in EU defence budgets have given extra importance to the need for
co-operation in Pooling and Sharing at a European level. The seminar provide an opportunity to further examine on the benefits and impacts of consolidating demand on EU governments and industries; on the opportunities and challenges this creates, both in the short and in the long term; and in general, to investigate further means, methods and ways of improving the effectiveness of military expenditure within the EU.

The seminar will be held at the Egmont Palace in Brussels, on 19 September 2012, and forms part of the activities planned for the Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the EU.