Its primary role is to foster European defence cooperation.

The origins of defence cooperation lay in the Baltic Entente of the 1920s.

In 2008, it was announced that France and Australia would strengthen their defence cooperation further in the Pacific region.

The agreement gives a formal structure to addressing existing and future areas of bilateral security and defence cooperation.

This is a major breakthrough after years of deadlock on defence cooperation.

The visit focused on the ways and means to improve defence cooperation as Pakistan.

Closer cooperation between at least a third of the Member States cannot apply in the case of defence cooperation.

Whatever differences exist as regards perspectives about defence cooperation in the European Union, it seems this is something that could unite us.

The Finnish Government has normally taken a critical view of closer defence cooperation.

We voted against the report because it contains a number of paragraphs concerning the extension of defence cooperation within the EU.