eu’s Common Security and Defence Policy (2023)
The main goal of the CSDP is to address the need of the European Union to establish a common framework of security and defence by addressing political guidance for implementing EU’s strategic geopolitical autonomy in the crisis management and push for efficiency in the states’ defence investments.
Short-term goals in action:
Support of Ukraine (after full-scale aggression)
Supporting the member state defence instruments
Exceeding the defense deficit target
EDIP (European Defence Industry Program), SEAP (Structure for European Armament Programme), FAST (Fund Accelerated defence supply chains transformation),
Mobilization of private capital and the European Investment Bank.
long-term goals in action:
Strengthening the security and defence culture.
Joint crises and problems solving
EU and its citizens protection
Strengthening international peace and security
Who benefits?:
Military industry,
the civil defence & eastern countries.
Who is left out?:
Marginalised communities & rural areas.
The climate and social justice aspects
are not taken into account
in the current plan.
How do we change that?
Don’t specify an arbitrary percent of GDP spent on defence
Common European investment by joint borrowing
For the sake of transparency, some purchase plans should be partially declassified
Better coordination of the purchase (e.g. buying the same type of planes) and prioritise the European defence corporations
Create a public-owned common European military industrial complex and push for the purchase of the private-owned European military industrial complex