The European Commission has prepared a document outlining three scenarios for activating Article 42.7—the European Union’s mutual defense clause—EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas announced Tuesday, Radio Liberty reported on May 12.
Speaking before the EU Council meeting in Brussels, Kallas detailed the crisis scenarios designed to act as the European analog to NATO’s Article 5. The first scenario involves a simultaneous attack on a NATO country, triggering both alliances’ defense clauses.
The second focuses on an attack against an EU state that is not a NATO member, while the third covers hybrid attacks that fall below the threshold for a NATO Article 5 response. Läs artikel