EU-NATO Joint Declaration inked
President of the European Council Donald Tusk, President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker and NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg signed an EU-NATO Joint Declaration on July 8 on the sidelines of the Warsaw summit, Ria Novosti reported.
The first of its kind, the Joint Declaration marks the importance of further strengthening EU-NATO cooperation at a time of unprecedented security challenges from the East and the South.
“We are facing a new and more challenging security environment and therefore it is important that we keep the debate going on on how we can develop, how we can strengthen NATO in response to a more challenging security environment,” Stoltenberg said earlier.
He also suggested that the exit of the UK from the EU "can only strengthen the cooperation between the EU and NATO."
The agreement is regarded as a significant step forward in cooperation between the Atlantic alliance and the Union, combining NATO’s military forces with the EU’s money and ambition to fight threats, ranging from terrorism to cybersecurity, on the Continent.
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