France and Germany: Spearheading CSDP?

After the Brexit vote, France and Germany put their weight behind a European Security and Defence Union. The will to “revitalise” the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) created new momentum on a range of stagnating dossiers. Faced with a window of opportunity, bilateral and European constraints persist nonetheless. Dr. Nicole Koenig and Marie Walter-Franke offer an assessment of the Franco-German potential for CSDP.

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