"Fogh in the Aegean
Sep 10th 2009 | ANKARA
From The Economist print edition
NATO’s secretary-general seeks better ties with the EU
THE (perhaps vain) hope of Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO’s newish secretary-general, when he visited Greece and Turkey recently was to get these hostile NATO members to set aside their longstanding rivalry so as to improve co-operation between the alliance and the European Union. Turkey objects to this because of a Greek and Cypriot block on its own participation in EU military planning, and on its putative membership of the European Defence Agency. As Mr Fogh Rasmussen complains, this means NATO cannot formally protect EU policemen in Afghanistan. “It’s a security issue. It’s absurd,” he says."
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