EU Defence Policy
(asked on 27th November 2017) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will publish the permitted triggers for EU member states requesting funding from the EU Cooperative Financial Mechanism.
This question was answered on 5th December 2017
The EU Cooperative Financial Mechanism (CFM) is a new European Defence Agency initiative and is being established on the basis that member states shall only contribute funds on a voluntary basis. The UK has yet to make a decision on whether it will seek to remain party to the CFM in the longer term. As the CFM is only at an embryonic stage there are no 'permitted triggers' agreed for EU member states requesting funding in existence.