EU to run first-ever tabletop exercise testing mutual defence assistance clause
The EU's chief diplomat Kaja Kallas will oversee the bloc's first tabletop exercise testing Article 42.7, the mutual assistance clause that obligates member states to aid one another if attacked. The drill, planned for next month, aims to establish how the EU would respond politically and operationally to an attack on a member state.
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