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CIAO DATE: 12/5/2006
Developing EU Civil Military Co-ordination: The Role of the New Civilian Military Cell
Gerrard Quille, Giovanni Gasparini, Roberto Menotti, Nicoletta Pirozzi, Stephen Pullinger (ed)
June 2006
Executive Summary
The scope of this Report is to analyse the recent developments in EU Civil Military Coordination (CMCO), with a particular focus on the establishment and role of the new Civilian Military Cell (CivMil Cell): an issue that is likely to be of great interest in European and Transatlantic (NATO) debates in the next few years. The Report is divided into two parts: the first reviews the main stages and obstacles in the process of establishing an EU CivMil Cell in the current European and Transatlantic security and defence context; and the second examines its partic ular impact on Italian policy and planning.
Since the EU's fledgling European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) received a new lease of life following the Franco-British Summit at St Malo in 1998, European defence, and ESDP in particular, has remained a topic for heated discussions. Following the launch of the ‘Tervuren Initiative’ by France, Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg in April 2003 at the so-called ‘Chocolate Summit’, the quest for an 'autonomous' ESDP capability continued in the form of the 'defence deal' in the Constitutional Treaty and the accompanying agreement reached by the Italian Presidency on ‘European Defence: NATO/EU Consultation, Planning and Operations’ in December 2003. While the continued pressure at the EU level to justify the development of ESDP in terms of 'added value' is contributing to an emphasis upon more joined-up 'civil-military' approaches to crisis management (distinct from national or NATO concepts), an increased operational demand has unquestionably driven forward the development of ESDP capabilities in the last few years....
