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NATO summit 2018 in Brussels

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The 2018 Brussels Summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) will be the 29th formal meeting of the heads of state and heads of government of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, held in Brussels, Belgium, on 11 and 12 July 2018

The EU is taking its security and defence into its own hands, in full complementarily with NATO.

Agenda highlights

President Donald Tusk, President Jean-Claude Juncker, and High Representative Federica Mogherini will represent the EU at the NATO summit.

President Tusk will participate to the working dinner of the North Atlantic Council at the level of heads of state and government on 11 July.

The NATO summit will provide the opportunity to follow up on EU-NATO cooperation. It will also be an occasion to take stock of progress achieved at the summit since the previous 2016 Warsaw summit.

President Donald Tusk and President Jean-Claude Juncker signed a new EU-NATO joint declaration with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, ahead of the summit on 10 July.

The new joint declaration sets out a shared vision of how the EU and NATO will act together against common security threats.

The EU and NATO will focus their cooperation on areas such as:

  • military mobility
  • cybersecurity
  • hybrid threats
  • counter-terrorism
  • women and security

The new joint declaration highlights that EU’s recent efforts to step up the defence and security cooperation strengthen transatlantic security:

The EU and NATO are the backbones of transatlantic security. Their cooperation was established more than 15 years ago. It has led to the development of a broad range of tools to provide greater security to citizens in Europe and beyond.

The EU and NATO signed a joint declaration on increasing practical cooperation at the last NATO summit, held in Poland in July 2016.

In December 2016, the EU and NATO endorsed 42 concrete actions for the implementation of the joint declaration.

Both parties endorsed a new set of 32 actions in December 2017 to expand cooperation to new topics.

There have been 27 NATO summits since 1949. These meetings are attended by the heads of state and government of NATO members and chaired by NATO’s Secretary General. The EU is regularly invited to attend these summits.

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