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EU leaders vow to boost Europe's defence capabilities
Europe's common security policy is "stuck between the strategic realities of declining defence budgets, waning European power in the world and a lack of will and ability to project strategic force outward", said Hugo Brady, a senior research fellow at the CER. "And on the other side, political inertia to do serious stuff in defence."