Judging from the programme, the EU clearly relies on NATO for security

The European Union has approved the first-ever joint EU security and defence strategy called the Strategic Compass. The decision was made by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Defence of the 27 EU member states at a meeting in Brussels on Monday, 21 March. Oleksiy Melnyk, Co-director of the Razumkov Centre’s Foreign Relations and International Security Programmes, the Coordinator of International Projects, told the Apostrophe about the impact of the new EU defence strategy on Ukraine, which has been at war with crazed Russia for a month.

This document was prepared in advance; it was widely discussed with the public and reviewed at various levels in the European Union. Generally speaking, it is a document for peacetime, urgently edited under today’s wartime conditions.