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EU Signs Historic Defense Pact PESCO
November 14 , 2017
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- Twenty-three member states of the European Union have signed a historic defence deal PESCO to cooperate more closely on defense.
- The pact, known as Permanent Structured Cooperation or PESCO, legally binds its signatories into joint defense projects.
- The PESCO pact aims to increase European security cooperation below the level of collective defense, which is covered by Article 5 of NATO.
- The pact includes all EU governments except Britain, Denmark, Ireland, Portugal and Malta.
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