European Defence Agency (EDA) Chief Executive Jorge Domecq poses after an interview with Reuters in Brussels, Belgium December 12, 2017. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - To critics who say the EU's new defence pact is little more than an alphabet soup of extra bureaucracy for Brussels, EU officials have their riposte: give us time before you judge us.
European Union leaders will on Thursday bless the biggest step in EU defence integration in more than two decades, a pact dubbed by France and Germany as historic to help match the bloc's economic and trade prowess with a more powerful military.
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