This Fundación Alternativas report on European defence has been carried out at the proposal of the Foundation itself and has the support of SEGENPOL of the Spanish Ministry of Defence.

The main reason this report is being drawn up is the urgent need for an in-depth analysis to assess the current state of the question of the defence of a European Union in a rapidly shifting geopolitical environment. Events such as Brexit or the US withdrawal from Afghanistan in June 2021 clearly pointed to the need for the EU to take its control of its own security and defence very seriously.