Notes
1 European Union External Action, ‘EU-NATO Cooperation: Factsheets’, 11 June 2019, <https://eeas.europa.eu/headquarters/headquarters-homepage_en/28286/EU-NATO%20cooperation%20-%20Factsheets>, accessed 26 January 2020. See also EU and NATO, ‘Fourth Progress Report on the Implementation of the Common Set of Proposals Endorsed by NATO and EU Councils on 6 December 2016 and 5 December 2017’, 17 June 2019, <https://www.nato.int/nato_static_fl2014/assets/pdf/pdf_2019_06/190617-4th-Joint-progress-report-EU-NATO-eng.pdf>, accessed 18 January 2020.
2 Malcolm Chalmers, ‘The 2% Target: Spending Increases and the Russian Threat’, RUSI Newsbrief (Vol. 39, No. 10, November 2019).
3 EU and NATO, ‘Fourth Progress Report on the Implementation of the Common Set of Proposals Endorsed by NATO and EU Councils on 6 December 2016 and 5 December 2017’.
4 European Council, ‘Joint Declaration on EU-NATO Cooperation’, July 2018, <https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2018/07/10/eu-nato-joint-declaration/>, accessed 18 January 2020.
5 European Council, ‘Defence Cooperation: Council Launches 13 New PESCO Projects’, 12 November 2019, <https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2019/11/12/defence-cooperation-council-launches-13-new-pesco-projects/>, accessed 18 January 2020.
6 Fergus Kelly, ‘EU Launches 13 New PESCO Defense Cooperation Projects’, Defense Post, 12 November 2019, <https://thedefensepost.com/2019/11/12/new-pesco-projects-eu-defense-cooperation/>, accessed 18 January 2020.
7 Chalmers, ‘The 2% Target’.
8 The Economist, ‘Emmanuel Macron Warns Europe: NATO is Becoming Brain-Dead’, 7 November 2019.
9 Rachid El Houdaigui, ‘NATO’s Mediterranean Dialogue: What are New Possible Approaches?’, Policy Center for the New South, Policy Brief, 7 June 2016, <https://www.policycenter.ma/publications/natos-mediterranean-dialogue-what-are-new-possible-approaches>, accessed 18 January 2020.