Secretary General calls on Europe to back up diplomacy with military power
Addressing the European Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs and Subcommittee on Security and Defence, plus chairpersons of defence and foreign affairs committees of national parliaments, on 6 May, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen called for the December European Council on security and defence to “showcase a Europe that is both able and willing to act,” and to encourage the EU and NATO to do more together.