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Assembly of Western European Union, [Fonds], 1955-2010

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Assembly of Western European Union

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[Fonds]

The Assembly was founded in 1954, with the creation of the Western European Union. For more than 50 years, the Assembly, located in Paris, has been exercising interparliamentary scrutiny of intergovernmental activities in all areas of European security and defence which served to increase transparency and democratic accountability. In the last few years, following the transfer of the WEU's operational activities to the EU, the Assembly's main focus was to scrutinise the EU's European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) while continuing to monitor the implications of cooperation with NATO. The Assembly paid particular attention to issues such as peacekeeping operations in the Balkans, Afghanistan, the Middle East and Africa. The work of the Assembly and its recommendations, to which governments were bound to reply, ensured that co-operation between governments at the European level was mirrored by cooperation between national parliamentarians meeting at the same level. It was decided in March 2010 to abolish the WEU and the Assemblies operations were wound up in May 2011

Series: Proceedings of the Assembly of Western European Union -- Texts adopted by the WEU Assembly and Transmitted to National Parliaments -- Aerospace Policy and Atomic Domain -- Miscellaneous Texts