EU countries in NATO. Part I

• Author: Antonoaie C.
• Pages: 93-98

Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov

Series V: Economic Sciences • Vol. 9 (58) No. 1 - 2016

EU countries in NATO.

Part I

Cristina ANTONOAIE1

Abstract: According to the Clingendael Report – New Treats, New EU and NATO responses

– from July 2015 issued by the Netherlands Institute of International Relations, the changes

in the security environment of Europe ask for a prudent response from the part of EU and

NATO member countries. Since the adoption of NATO’s new Strategic Concept at the Lisbon

Summit in November 2010, which identifies the need for the Alliance to address emerging

security challenges, several new areas of cooperation with the EU are taking place, besides

strategic issues, political consultation, capabilities and terrorism, in particular energy

security issues and cyber defense.

Key-words: EU, NATO, security

1. Introduction

The EU member countries that are also part of NATO are, in alphabetical order of

the country code: Belgium (BE), Bulgaria (BG), Czech Republic (CZ), Denmark

(DK), Germany (DE), Estonia (EE), Greece (EL), Spain (ES), France (FR), Croatia

(HR), Italy (IT), Latvia (LV), Lithuania (LT), Luxembourg (LU), Hungary (HU),

Netherlands (NL), Poland (PL), Portugal (PT), Romania (RO), Slovenia (SI),

Slovakia (SK), United Kingdom (UK).

The rest of the EU member countries (except Cyprus) – Austria, Finland,

Ireland, Malta and Sweden are part of the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council

(EAPC).

2. Material and Methods

Countries are ranked by Military Strength (2016) – the Global Firepower List (GFP)

that makes use of over 50 factors to determine a given nation’s Power Index score.

Ranking does not solely rely on the total number of weapons available to a country

and nuclear capability is not taken into account.

1 DRESMARA, antonoaie.cristina@crmra.ro