The Strategic Compass and capability development: towards greater coherence?

On 28 September 2021, the EU Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) and the Hungarian Ministry of Defence organised a webinar to address EU capability development within the context of the Strategic Compass process. The webinar was an opportunity to learn about national defence planning perspectives and processes. The event also addressed what steps could be taken to streamline EU capability development processes and a number of concrete ideas and suggestions were presented.

The webinar attracted over 60 participants from Member States and EU institutions and it took place in the context of the Strategic Compass dialogue phase. The event welcomed a number of high-level speakers from the Hungarian, German, Portuguese and Spanish Ministries of Defence, the European Defence Agency, the European External Action Service, the EU Military Staff and the German Council on Foreign Relations.