The UK dramatically halted its blanket consent to EU military schemes at the EU Council meeting of 13 November 2017 by refusing to enter the ‘PESCO’ military union agreement.
Where does that leave the ongoing risk to the UK from entanglement in EU schemes? Our paper below describes the continuing problem. In fact, the risk has not receded.
The PESCO agreement itself is designed to attract and engulf unwitting non-EU countries.
Background: PESCO, or Permanent Structured Cooperation, means participants agree to coordinate all defence decision-making and impose a single rigid structure on their militaries under collective EU authority. Besides the UK, only Ireland, Portugal, Malta and Denmark chose not to enter this merger project.
