The US wants a Europe-led NATO. Europeans should start planning it

The political heat between NATO allies over Greenland may have cooled for now, but Europeans should be wary of thinking that stability will prevail.

The major lesson of the Greenland crisis is that shifting national interests between the US and Europe call for a European-led NATO sooner than previously envisioned, and even a five-to-ten-year transition may be optimistic. The newly released US National Defense Strategy, which calls for European allies to assume primary responsibility for Europe’s conventional defence, supports this claim. 

As European leaders take to the podium at the Munich Security Conference this week, it is time they move beyond talk and get to work.  

Read the full piece published in EURACTIVE here.