Strategic autonomy of the European Union: on the way to "European sovereignty" in defense?

Searching and developing new approaches to military cooperation between EU Member States is useful as it helps to shape a new, more effective regional model of collective security. However, its implementation will be problematic as long as EU Member States seek to retain their maximum autonomy in decision-making in the field of security and defense. Therefore, new approaches, such as the idea of EU strategic autonomy, will be implemented only in the case if national governments agree to take steps that will provide a higher degree of political integration in security and defense, leading to European Sovereignty in defense. The evidence of the EU's transition from discussion to concrete actions is the creation of a European Defense Fund, Permanent Structured Cooperation and the launch of a Coordinated Annual Review on Defense.

The idea of creating the European Defense Union (EDU), supported by the European Council, the European Commission, and the European Parliament, has the potential to become a real one and therefore it gives new momentum to the discussions on ways to ensure global and regional (European) security. In such a context, the question arises whether the implementation of the idea of European strategic autonomy (as one of the important steps towards the creation of an EDU) could mean the end of NATO, which we have known for seventy years, or whether it symbolizes the beginning of a new model of the relationship between the EU and NATO, in which EDU will work within NATO complementing it?

In today's conditions, the European Union must strengthen its security and defense capabilities, as it can only use its full potential as a global power build the resilience of its members state and protect Europe if it combines its soft power with hard power as part of the comprehensive approach.

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