El Futuro de la cooperación Unión European - OTAN

GENERAL REINHARDT TRISCHAK
Director of Plans and Policy, EU Military Staff
Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen,
good afternoon. I would like, at the very
beginning of my presentation, to thank
the Institute, fi rst for inviting the military
staff to give a presentation in this very
important forum; but secondly and most
important, to thank the Institute for the
work it is doing in terms of promoting
transparency, promoting openness but
also in terms of opinion making, opinionshaping.
This is what has been discussed
already and it is very important. I can
assure that the Institutions in Brussels
observe these activities from a very positive
view and it needs to be supported as much
as possible. So thank you for that.
My second comment before I get started
is that I was listening very carefully to
what General Bornemann was saying. I
redrafted part of my presentation during
his presentation. What I’m going to do
now, is I’m going to skip parts of my
presentation, I will leave parts of it where I
believe I may give more detailed substance.
General Bornemann was of course looking
at it from a specifi c angle, I´ll try to look at
certain topics maybe a little bit more from
the roots, I´ll try to give you some examples
in order to portray some of the problems
we are having. I’m going to leave other
parts I think I need to stress to show that
the EU is very much on the same position
and supporting certain positions of NATO.
What I would like to talk about are actually
four points. One, EU-NATO relations, the
state of play and the instruments. Two, the
Panel II: “Lecciones aprendidas de la cooperación y perspectivas futuras”
communalities. Three, lessons learned from
EU-NATO cooperation. And four, the way
ahead. This is more or less what General
Bornemann has been talking about, but as
I have said, I have amended it is slightly.
The framework for EU-NATO relations
through the Berlin Plus Agreement,
of course covers the military crisis
management and the capabilities
development. In this context here it’s now
more important for me to talk about the
standing arrangements for consultation
and cooperation, contacts between experts
from the EU staff and NATO.
I would like to give you a couple of
examples of these excellent bilateral
relations that we have. One, of course,
and it has already been mentioned, are
the meetings between the Director of the
EU military staff and the Director of the
International Military staff. One detail I
would like to add is that these meetings
took place twice during the last year and
it has been now increased to twice per
semester. So the Directors meet four times
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