Topic

EU security and defence policy

The European Union's common foreign, security and defence decision-making, including its treaty clauses on mutual assistance and solidarity and the unanimity requirements that govern most of it.

Current clusters

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Von der Leyen wants a cyberattack in one EU state to convene all 27 governments

The proposed Emergency Security Protocol copies NATO's Article 4, so a single government could put a cyber incident in front of the other 26. What those 26 could then agree runs into the EU's unanimity rules.

Publishers:therecord.media

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption: Insufficient
Hype gap+35
Incentives62
Confidence55