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The Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP)

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The Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) enables the European Union to take a leading role in peace-keeping operations, conflict prevention and in the strengthening of the international security. It is an integral part of the EU’s comprehensive approach towards crisis management, drawing on civilian and military assets.

Goal

Civilian headline goals:

  • Identify civilian crisis management priority areas for the EU;
  • Latest revision: Civilian Headline Goal 2010 placed greater emphasis on civil-military cooperation in addition to a continued focus on improving readiness and deployability
  • Military Headline Goals
  • Drafted following the Cologne agreement that the EU should possess an autonomous military capacity to respond to crises;
  • Include the ability of Member States to deploy forces up to corps level, capable of the full range of Petersberg tasks;
  • Ensure that the EU possesses the military capabilities required to conduct the full range of missions encompassed by the Petersberg tasks

More information: https://www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/common-security-and-defence-policy_en

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