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EU and US defense leaders pounce on 

new pet project: military mobility

By: Sebastian Sprenger    1 day ago

 

Military vehicles and equipment await transportation to Cincu, Romania, while at a port in Bremerhaven, Germany, 

in 2017. EU and U.S. officials agreed to boost their cooperation on military mobility in May 2021. (1st Lt. Louis 

Stevens/U.S. Defense Department)

COLOGNE, Germany — European Union members have admitted 

the United States into a project aimed at quickening the flow of 

military personnel and equipment across the continent, hoping 

the move will open a new front in trans-Atlantic cooperation.

The defense ministers’ May 6 approval at a meeting in Brussels 

begins a test case for a relatively new set of rules about non-EU 

countries partaking in the bloc’s Permanent Structured Cooperation 

scheme, or PESCO.

Ministers also approved Canada’s and Norway’s applications to the 

mobility initiative.

Besides the project’s tangible objectives — streamlining the red tape 

for quickly shipping a tank from Lisbon to Talinn, for example — 

officials celebrated the Pentagon’s inclusion as the beginning of an 

actual U.S.-EU defense agenda.

Dutch Defence Minster Ank Bijleveld described the step as a 

“concrete and positive signal that the EU wishes to cooperate with 

Washington, Ottawa and Oslo on defense.” The Dutch Defence Ministry 

serves as coordinator for the military mobility PESCO project.