| Description |
1 online resource (9 pages) : color illustrations |
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Clingendael report |
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Clingendael report.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Bring politics back into CSDP -- A political narrative -- Defend defence -- Increase knowledge within parliaments -- Increase transparency -- Annual progress meeting -- An improved Interparliamentary Conference on CFSP/CSDP -- Functional and cluster interparliamentary cooperation -- The way forward |
| Summary |
The role of parliaments is a neglected factor in the development of European defence cooperation. This is clearly in need of rectification as parliaments have a crucial role in making deeper defence cooperation a success. This Clingendael report reflects the main topics of discussion at the high-level Netherlands EU Presidency Seminar on Defence, held on 14 and 15 March 2016. In most of the EU member states, the elected representatives decide about planning, procurement, the deployment of troops and the budget allocated to defence. The 2016 Netherlands EU Presidency therefore devoted a seminar to this issue, organised by the Ministry of Defence in cooperation with the Institute of International Relations 'Clingendael'. High-level panels and a mixed audience of parliamentarians, national and European officials, members of think tanks, the military and academics discussed 'The Parliamentary Dimension of Defence Cooperation'. The report addresses a number of issues discussed at the seminar. The first section reflects the crucial role that parliamentarians have in bringing politics back into the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). They are key to creating a political narrative on the importance of defence, defence cooperation and sovereignty understood as 'the ability to act'. The second section is devoted to the need to defend defence in parliament and towards the general public. Besides a small circle of dedicated parliamentarians, knowledge about and support for defence are not widespread in the European and national parliaments. The third section underlines the need for more transparency from governments towards parliaments on defence cooperation. The report's final section is devoted to the interparliamentary dimension that needs strengthening and looks into the workings of the Interparliamentary Conference and the parliamentary dimension of cluster cooperation.-- Publisher description |
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At head of title: Clingendael, Netherlands Institute of International Relations |
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"April 2016." |
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Common Security and Defence Policy -- Congresses
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| SUBJECT |
Common Security and Defence Policy. fast (OCoLC)fst01912665 |
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Representative government and representation -- European Union countries -- Congresses
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Military policy.
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Military readiness.
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Representative government and representation.
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European Union countries -- Defenses -- Congresses
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European Union countries -- Military policy -- Congresses
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European Union countries.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Drent, Margriet, author.
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Landman, Lennart, author.
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Nederlands Instituut voor Internationale Betrekkingen "Clingendael", issuing body
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