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2 EU-NATO COOPERATION

RAPID PROGRESS IN ALL AREAS OF COOPERATION
Hybrid threats
The structured dialogue on resilience ensures regular EU-NATO interaction in this key work strand, while
a joint task force on resilience of critical infrastructure mapped out security challenges and presented
recommendations.
Operational cooperation including maritime issues
EU and NATO staffs are working to enhance coordination and complementarity of efforts in the maritime
domain and enhance operational cooperation in Western Balkans, Iraq as well as the Mediterranean and
Aegean Sea.
Cyber security
EU and NATO staffs closely interact on concepts and doctrines, training and education courses, threat
indicators, ad-hoc exchanges of threat alerts and assessments.
Defence Capabilities
Efforts continue to ensure coherence of output between EU and NATO capability development planning
instruments and processes. Military mobility remains a “flagship” of EU-NATO cooperation.
Defence industry and research
Staff exchanges continue on wider industry matters and concrete topics related to industry engagement, in
particular towards Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), to ensure mutual awareness and sharing of
best practices.
Parallel and coordinated exercises
Cooperation in the domain of PACE exercises continues, including through cross-participation in respective
activities.
Capacity-building
The EU and NATO continue to assist partners in building their capacities and strengthening their resilience – in
particular in the Western Balkans and in our Eastern and Southern neighbourhood, in particular in Bosnia and
Herzegovina (BiH), Georgia, Jordan, the Republic of Moldova, Tunisia, Mauritania and Ukraine.
Strengthening political dialogue between EU and NATO
Political dialogue remains an indispensable instrument for strengthening mutual understanding, building
confidence and ensuring reciprocal transparency. The established practice of mutual invitations to Ministerial
meetings and mutual cross-briefings continues.
STRATEGIC COMPASS
The Strategic Compass gives further political impetus to the EU-NATO strategic partnership, by making concrete proposals
to further:

ENHANCE DEEPEN EXPAND
ongoing cooperation on political common work on enhancing maritime cooperation to new areas, such as
dialogue, information sharing, security and countering hybrid emerging and disruptive technologies,
crisis management operations threats including foreign information climate change and defence, resilience
and exercises, defence capability manipulation and securing cyberspace as well as space.
development and military mobility; as well as the implementation of the
Women, Peace and Security agenda;

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