EU’s new military aid fund positioned to take off operationally in July
by Brooks Tigner
The co-ordination and initial use of the EU’s new foreign military aid programme, the European Peace Facility (EPF), will be closely aligned with the union’s military training and security missions in Africa to complement their objectives, says the chief EU official overseeing the fund, who added that a first set of priorities for the EPF will soon be mapped out.
The EPF is to become operational in July. (Getty Images)
“The EU’s CSDP [Common Security and Defence Policy] missions in Africa will be closely associated with our work in that they will be involved in the design, evaluation, control and advice for any aid distributed from the EPF,” Stefano Tomat told a 14 April meeting in Brussels of the European Parliament’s Security and Defence (SEDE) subcommittee. Tomat is director of CSDP and crisis response policy within the European External Action Service (EEAS), the EU’s fore
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