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EUROPEAN
INTERVENTION
INITIATIVE
Making European defence stronger
10 COUNTRIES
REPRESENTING:
FOR A YEAR
W hy ?
core of countries sharing the political will
and military capabilities to meet their opera-
tional responsibilities, EI2 strengthens the
Europe is now living in an era of major “Europe that protects”.
upheaval, with a rapid and lasting deterio-
ration of the strategic environment, and
new forms of warfare and conflict. This new
era calls for a renewed European ambition
How ? OVER
Concretely, EI2 members will implement
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in the field of defence and a new approach pragmatic and operational cooperation
to defence cooperation. on strategic foresight, scenarii, lessons
learned and support to operations.
What? EI2 will deliver tangible results, for instance BILLION EUROS
With the shared determination to promo- developing our common ability to respond
swiftly and jointly to natural disasters,
INVESTED IN DEFENCE
ting European strategic empowerment,
the ministers of defence of Belgium, conducting non-combat evacuation
Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, operations and bolstering our ability to
the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, the carry out military, high-end operations
United Kingdom, soon joined by worldwide.
Finland, have established the European
Intervention Initiative (EI2) on 25 June The first EI2 Defence Ministerial was held
2018. on 7 November 2018. On this occasion,
Defence Ministers of EI2 participating States
By drawing our strategic cultures closer, agreed upon the political directives, which
by cultivating pragmatic partnerships will guide the operational work to be carried
among European States, and by reinfor- out within the framework of the Military
cing solidarity and capabilities within a European Strategic Talks (MEST).
OVER
T I M ELINE 300
MILLION PEOPLE
WO R K I N G C YC L E I W O R K I N G C YCLE II
JUNE
25 JUNE 2018 Ministerial
Signature of the
letter of intent
meeting
(Paris) 9 NOV.
SPRING 2019
MEST
(EI2 Military
2019
Talks)
Defence
Ministerial meeting
MEST (EI2 Military Talks)
25 000
SOLDIERS DEPLOYED
MEST policy Defence policy meeting
(Luxembourg) ADHESION
(EI2 Military Talks) meeting AROUND THE WORLD
OF FINLAND
C ontributing to
NATO and the EU
EI2 is an independent initiative, which makes
it more flexible and reactive, and allows for an
invaluable cross-cutting approach. Concre-
tely, this means that EI2 develops outside of
NATO and the EU.
M
At the same time, EI2 is also fully compatible
with and will benefit to both organizations.
ilitary European First, EI2, NATO and the EU are all working