The EU Military Staff, the European Union's permanent single integrated military structure, is now in its fifth year. Small though it is, from the outset it has been at the heart of European Security and Defence Policy achievements. It brings its military expertise to the preparation of all documents to be used as the launch pad for operations. It is the executive structure in the process of developing capabilities and it is in constant contact with the main EU interlocutors in the security field throughout the world.
The EU Military Staff
The European Union Military Staff was set up following the Nice summit in December 2000 which aimed to provide the European Union with instruments capable of exercising political control and strategic direction in crisis management in the field of European Security and Defence Policy. Three important bodies were thus set up in 2001.(1)
The Political and Security Committee (PSC), a college of ambassadors charged with monitoring the international situation on the Council’s behalf in the areas covered by the Common Foreign and Security Policy and contributing to the definition of European Union policies. With regard to crisis management, it prepares the EU response to a crisis and exercises its political control and strategic direction.
The Military Committee of the European Union, composed of all the Member States’ Chiefs of Defence, each having a permanent representative in Brussels, is the European Union’s highest military body and, as such, advises the PSC.
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