Common Security and Defence Policy and Common Armed Forces/European Army in European Union official documentation 2009-2015
Journal: DSpace repository (University of Tartu)
Year: 2016

The current thesis concentrates on two aspects of the idea of creating EU Common Armed Forces/European army. The first part of the thesis clarifies the necessity of having its own credible military capabilities within the EU. Also in general terms it provides an overview of classical and modern armed forces created in the framework of international organisations. In addition, an overview of the progress made in the EU on this field and an assessment based on different authors is given.&#13;\nThe