EU and Canada sign security and defence partnership at 20th summit

EU and Canada sign security and defence partnership at 20th summit

The leaders of the European Union and Canada – Presidents Ursula von der Leyen and António Costa for the EU, with Prime Minister Mark Carney for Canada – agreed to deepen their cooperation and partnership at yesterday's 20th EU-Canada summit.

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The leaders of the European Union and Canada – Presidents Ursula von der Leyen and António Costa for the EU, with Prime Minister Mark Carney for Canada – agreed to deepen their cooperation and partnership at yesterday's 20th EU-Canada summit.

Both parties signed a landmark Security and Defence Partnership that will strengthen Canada's contribution to Europe's rapidly evolving defence architecture. They also agreed to swiftly launch talks on a new bilateral agreement for Canada to access SAFE, Europe's joint arms procurement initiative. This would allow the channelling of investments in innovative defence projects.

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• Support to Ukraine
• International peacekeeping and crisis management, including CSDP missions and operations
• Military mobility and interoperability
• Maritime security
• Cyber issues and emerging disruptive technologies
• Space security
• Countering hybrid threats and building societal resilience
• Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI)
• Counterterrorism and preventing/countering violent extremism
• EU and Canada defence initiatives, including exchange of information on defence industrial related matters Capacity building and training in third countries
• Peace mediation and conflict prevention
• Arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation
• Climate change and security nexus
• External aspects of economic and human security
• Women, Peace and Security

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trophy33 said:

Such partnerships are frequently rather symbolic. Time will tell if it will be something big or not.

"Women, Peace and Security" sounds like from some satire.

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