EU missions should in future be commanded out of an EU military HQ with joint medical and logistical support, according to Franco-German proposals.
The two countries put forward their ideas in a six-page paper, seen by EUobserver, on Sunday (11 September).
They said the leap forward would amount to the creation of a real common security policy, “an instrument created by the Lisbon Treaty that has not been used until today”.
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