A marquee cooperation project between the European Union and the Pentagon aimed at cutting red tape during cross-border deployments of military gear in Europe has yet to get off the ground, as negotiations continue about the ground rules for non-EU participants.
At issue is a so-called “administrative arrangement” between members of the EU’s various PESCO projects — the bloc’s collective effort to strengthen defense cooperation — and outside countries. In the case of the military mobility effort, the Dutch government, as project lead, is tasked with brokering terms between two dozen EU member countries and three non-members: the United States, Canada and Norway.
US-European momentum on military mobility still stuck in bureaucracy (defensenews.com)
