February 1992: The EU adopts the Maastricht Treaty, which envisages an intergovernmental Widespread International and Safety Coverage (CFSP) and the eventual framing of a standard defence coverage (ESDP) with the WEU because the EU’s defence element.
Shut cooperation is established between NATO and the WEU.
June 1992: In Oslo, NATO International Ministers assist the target of growing the WEU as a method of strengthening the European pillar of the Alliance and because the defence element of the EU, that might additionally cowl the “Petersberg duties” (humanitarian search and rescue duties, peacekeeping duties, crisis-management duties together with peace enforcement and environmental safety).
January 1994: Allied Leaders conform to make collective property of the Alliance obtainable, on the premise of consultations within the North Atlantic Council, for WEU operations undertaken by the European Allies in pursuit of their CFSP. NATO endorses the idea of Mixed Joint Job Forces, which gives for “separable however not separate” deployable headquarters that might be used for European-led operations and is the conceptual foundation for future operations involving NATO and different non-NATO nations.
June 1996: In Berlin, NATO International Ministers agree for the primary time to construct up a European Safety and Defence Id (ESDI) inside NATO, with the intention of rebalancing roles and obligations between Europe and North America. A vital a part of this initiative was to enhance European capabilities. Additionally they determine to make Alliance property obtainable for WEU-led crisis-management operations. These selections result in the introduction of the time period “Berlin Plus”.
December 1998: At their summit in St Malo, France and the UK make a joint assertion affirming the EU’s willpower to ascertain a European Safety and Defence Coverage (ESDP).
April 1999: On the 1999 NATO Summit in Washington, NATO Heads of State and Authorities determine to develop the “Berlin Plus” preparations.
June 1999: A European Council assembly in Cologne, Germany decides “to provide the European Union the required means and capabilities to imagine its obligations concerning a standard European coverage on safety and defence“.
December 1999: On the Helsinki Council assembly, EU member states set up navy “headline objectives” to permit the EU to deploy as much as 60,000 troops by 2003 for ‘Petersberg duties’. EU members additionally create political and navy buildings together with a Political and Safety Committee, a Navy Committee and a Navy Workers. The crisis-management function of the WEU is transferred to the EU. The WEU retains residual duties.
September 2000: The North Atlantic Council and the EU’s interim Political and Safety Committee meet for the primary time to take inventory of progress in NATO-EU relations.
December 2000: Signature of the EU’s Treaty of Good containing amendments reflecting the operative developments of the ESDP as an unbiased EU coverage (entry into drive February 2003).
January 2001: Starting of institutionalised relations between NATO and the EU with the institution of joint conferences, together with on the degree of International Ministers and ambassadors. Trade of letters between the NATO Secretary Common and the EU Presidency on the scope of cooperation and modalities for session.
Could 2001: First formal NATO-EU assembly on the degree of International Ministers in Budapest. The NATO Secretary Common and the EU Presidency subject a joint assertion on the Western Balkans.
November 2002: On the 2002 NATO Summit in Prague, NATO members declare their readiness to provide the EU entry to NATO property and capabilities for operations wherein the Alliance is just not engaged militarily.
December 2002: The EU-NATO Declaration on ESDP is issued.
March 2003: Settlement on the framework for cooperation. Entry into drive of a NATO-EU safety of data settlement. Transition from the NATO-led Operation Allied Concord to the EU-led Operation Concordia within the Republic of North Macedonia (then often known as the previous Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia).
Could 2003: First assembly of the NATO-EU Functionality Group.
July 2003: Improvement of a standard technique for the Western Balkans.
November 2003: First joint NATO-EU crisis-management train.
February 2004: France, Germany and the UK launch the concept of EU rapid-reaction items composed of joint battle teams.
December 2004: Starting of the EU-led Operation Althea in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
October 2005: Settlement on Navy Everlasting Preparations establishing a NATO Everlasting Liaison Workforce on the EU Navy Workers and an EU cell at SHAPE.
November 2005: A everlasting NATO Liaison Workforce is ready up on the EU Navy Workers.
March 2006: An EU cell is ready up at SHAPE.
2005 – 2012: Transatlantic casual NATO-EU ministerial dinners are held in New York (Sep. 2005 and Sep. 2006); Sofia (Apr. 2006); Brussels (Jan. 2007); Oslo (April 2007); New York (Sep. 2007); Brussels (Dec. 2007); New York (Sep. 2008); Brussels (Dec. 2008); Brussels (March 2009); and New York (Sep. 2010, 2011 and 2012).
November 2010: On the 2010 NATO Summit in Lisbon, the Allies underline their willpower to enhance the NATO-EU strategic partnership and welcome latest initiatives from a number of Allies and concepts proposed by the Secretary Common on this regard.
11 February 2013: President of the European Fee José Manuel Barroso visits NATO Headquarters.
Could 2013: The NATO Secretary Common addresses the European Parliament’s Committee on International Affairs and Subcommittee on Safety and Defence.
June 2013: The NATO Secretary Common participates in a casual assembly of EU International Ministers.
December 2013: The NATO Secretary Common addresses the European Council in Brussels.
5 March 2014: NATO and EU Political and Safety Committee (PSC) ambassadors maintain casual talks on Ukraine throughout Russia’s unlawful annexation of Crimea. A second spherical of talks takes place on 10 June 2014.
10 February 2016: A Technical Association on Cyber Defence was concluded between the NATO Laptop Incident Response Functionality (now often known as the NATO Cyber Safety Centre) and the Laptop Emergency Response Workforce of the European Union (CERT-EU), offering a framework for exchanging info and sharing finest practices between emergency response groups.
11 February 2016: On the request of Germany, Greece and Türkiye, NATO Defence Ministers agree that the Alliance ought to be part of worldwide efforts to stem human trafficking and unlawful migration within the Aegean Sea, cooperating with the European Union’s border administration company, Frontex.
10 March 2016: Visiting the European Fee to fulfill Fee President Jean-Claude Juncker, NATO Secretary Common Jens Stoltenberg stresses the important significance of the NATO-EU relationship and welcomes the organisations’ deepening ties.
12-13 Could 2016: An off-the-cuff EU-NATO Administrators Common Convention takes place at NATO Headquarters to boost staff-to-staff interplay between the organisations’ respective navy staffs on matters of present relevance and customary curiosity associated to safety and defence.
20 Could 2016: EU Excessive Consultant for International Affairs and Safety Coverage Federica Mogherini visits NATO Headquarters for a gathering with NATO International Ministers to debate areas for expanded NATO-EU cooperation forward of upcoming EU and NATO summit conferences.
July 2016: On the 2016 NATO Summit in Warsaw, a Joint Declaration expresses the willpower to provide new impetus and new substance to the NATO-EU strategic partnership in gentle of widespread challenges. Areas for strengthened cooperation embrace: countering hybrid threats; operational cooperation together with at sea; cyber safety and defence; defence capabilities; defence industrial cooperation; workouts; and constructing the defence capabilities of companions to the east and south.
27 October 2016: NATO Defence Ministers meet with EU Excessive Consultant Federica Mogherini and the Defence Ministers of then-partners Finland and Sweden (now NATO members) and Sweden (now a NATO Invitee) to debate methods to deepen NATO-EU cooperation within the areas of countering hybrid threats, cyber defence, coordinated workouts and supporting companions. Ministers agree to increase NATO’s deployment within the Aegean Sea in assist of the efforts of Greece, Türkiye and the EU’s border company Frontex to interrupt the traces of human trafficking. Additionally they determine that NATO’s new Operation Sea Guardian will assist the EU’s Operation Sophia within the Central Mediterranean with NATO ships and planes, prepared to assist improve the EU’s situational consciousness and supply logistical assist.
15 November 2016: NATO Secretary Common Jens Stoltenberg meets with EU Defence Ministers for talks on European defence and nearer NATO-EU cooperation. He stresses that efforts to strengthen European defence can contribute to a stronger NATO, via higher defence capabilities and better defence spending in Europe.
7 December 2016: NATO International Ministers approve a collection of greater than 40 measures to advance how NATO and the EU work collectively together with on countering hybrid threats, cyber defence, and making their widespread neighbourhood extra steady and safe.
15 December 2016: NATO Secretary Common Jens Stoltenberg meets with EU leaders for talks on European defence and nearer NATO-EU cooperation.
10 February 2017: NATO convenes a casual workshop on reinforce safety dialogue within the Euro-Atlantic area, specializing in the significance of NATO, the European Union and the Group for Safety and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) supporting one another to enhance current arms management mechanisms.
24 March 2017: The North Atlantic Council and the EU’s Political and Safety Committee meet to debate NATO-EU cooperation, particularly the implementation of the Joint Declaration signed in Warsaw in July 2016, which led to a standard set of proposals endorsed by the respective Councils of each organisations in December 2016.
19 June 2017: A first progress report on NATO-EU cooperation – authored collectively by NATO Secretary Common Jens Stoltenberg and EU Excessive Consultant / Vice-President of the European Fee Federica Mogherini – concludes that the 2 organisations are making substantial progress in complementing one another’s work for the reason that settlement in Warsaw in July 2016 to work extra intently collectively in areas starting from resilience to hybrid threats, via better coherence on functionality improvement to serving to construct the defence capacities of accomplice nations.
5 December 2017: In a gathering with EU Excessive Consultant Federica Mogherini, NATO International Ministers conform to step up NATO’s cooperation with the European Union via a further widespread set of 32 new proposals on the implementation of the Joint Declaration signed by the President of the European Council, the President of the European Fee and the Secretary Common of NATO. Joint work will embrace three new areas: navy mobility, information-sharing within the battle in opposition to terrorism, and selling ladies’s function in peace and safety. A second progress report on NATO-EU cooperation is issued.
8 June 2018: A third progress report on NATO-EU cooperation is launched to the general public and highlights the qualitative and quantitative improve in cooperation between NATO and the EU.
10 July 2018: In a Joint Declaration on EU-NATO Cooperation, the President of the European Council, the President of the European Fee and the NATO Secretary Common underline the significance of continued EU-NATO cooperation to deal with a number of and evolving safety challenges in addition to steps being taken by each organisations to strengthen capabilities in defence and safety.
11 July 2018: On the 2018 NATO Summit in Brussels, Allied Leaders underline that the European Union stays a novel and important accomplice for NATO. They welcome tangible progress made in a variety of areas in addition to the second Joint Declaration about taking additional steps to implement the widespread set of 74 proposals, emphasising the significance of the dedication to enhancing navy mobility.
17 June 2019: A fourth progress report on NATO-EU cooperation is revealed.
16 June 2020: A fifth progress report on NATO-EU cooperation is revealed.
3 June 2021: A sixth progress report on NATO-EU cooperation is revealed.
14 June 2021: On the 2021 NATO Summit in Brussels, Allied Leaders emphasise unprecedented ranges of NATO-EU strategic cooperation that features addressing challenges equivalent to resilience points, rising and disruptive applied sciences, the safety implications of local weather change, disinformation and the rising geostrategic competitors. They reaffirm their dedication to the complete implementation of the widespread set of 74 proposals and spotlight the significance of the event of coherent, complementary and interoperable defence capabilities.
27 November 2021: The joint go to of the NATO Secretary Common and the President of the European Fee to Latvia and Lithuania demonstrates solidarity with NATO Allies and EU member states within the Baltic area, in addition to additional strengthening of the cooperation between NATO and the EU.
3 February 2022: NATO and EU PSC Ambassadors maintain and casual assembly to debate Russia’s navy build-up in and round Ukraine and the implications for European and worldwide safety. The assembly fashioned a part of a collection of conferences, preceded by an alternate on Afghanistan in September 2021 and one on Operation ALTHEA in Bosnia and Herzegovina in December 2021.
24-25 February 2022: NATO Secretary Common Jens Stoltenberg meets with the President of the European Fee, Ursula von der Leyen, and the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, to debate Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. NATO and the EU stand united in condemning Russia’s actions, and in supporting Ukraine’s sovereignty, territorial integrity and proper to self-defence. On 25 February, European Council President Michel and European Fee President von der Leyen participate in a rare digital summit of Heads of State and Authorities of NATO Allies, plus then-partners Finland and Sweden (now NATO members).
20 June 2022: A seventh progress report on NATO-EU cooperation is revealed.
29-30 June 2022: President of the European Council Charles Michel and President of the European Fee Ursula von der Leyen take part in talks on the 2022 NATO Summit in Madrid, in addition to on the transatlantic dinner hosted by the Spanish authorities and with the participation of NATO and EU Heads of State and Authorities. NATO and the EU underline the significance of additional strengthening their important strategic partnership, and reaffirm their widespread resolve in responding to Russia’s warfare in opposition to Ukraine.
10 January 2023: Secretary Common Jens Stoltenberg, President of the European Council Charles Michel and President of the European Fee Ursula von der Leyen meet at NATO Headquarters to signal the third Joint Declaration on EU-NATO Cooperation. The assembly underlines the significance of NATO-EU cooperation within the context of the modified safety setting following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and the upcoming improve of shared members.
21 February 2023: NATO Secretary Common Jens Stoltenberg, EU Excessive Consultant for International Affairs and Safety Coverage Josep Borrell and Ukrainian International Minister Dmytro Kuleba conform to convene NATO, EU and Ukrainian procurement consultants to see what extra might be achieved collectively to make sure Ukraine has the weapons it must defend itself in opposition to Russia’s aggression.
17 March 2023: The NATO Secretary Common visits the Troll A offshore pure fuel platform off the west coast of Norway, along with the Norwegian Prime Minister, the European Fee President and the CEO of Equinor. The joint go to demonstrates the unity between NATO and the EU and the shared dedication of each organisations to boosting the resilience of their societies, infrastructure and provide chains.
23 March 2023: A ceremony is held to mark the preliminary operational functionality of the brand new Multi Position Tanker Transport (MRTT) fleet developed by the NATO Assist and Procurement Company, the European Defence Company and the Organisation for Joint Armament Cooperation.
16 June 2023: An eighth progress report on NATO-EU cooperation is revealed.
29 June 2023: The NATO Secretary Common participates within the European Council assembly for discussions with the EU leaders about NATO-EU cooperation within the context of Russia’s aggressive warfare in opposition to Ukraine, in addition to on broader widespread challenges.
11-12 July 2023: Presidents of the European Council and the European Fee take part within the NATO Summit in Vilnius, together with the session with companions within the Indo-Pacific area.