For years, European leaders have pointed out that Europe is an economic giant, but a military pygmy.
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NATO and the EU have also agreed on permanent arrangements on consultation and cooperation between themselves.Lord Robertson
The rapid dissemination of technology and information offers entirely new ways of production, but it can also bring the spectre of more states developing weapons of mass destruction.
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So seven new countries, three of them formerly part of the Soviet Union, and the others part of the Warsaw Pact, will become full members of NATO next year.
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Globalisation will make our societies more creative and prosperous, but also more vulnerable.
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Well, if the NATO countries don't make more of their troops usable and don't get the equipment to get them fast where the action is, then the organisation will suffer and will increasingly become irrelevant.
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