The integration of European defense through funding and strategic autonomy

Abstract: This paper aims to frame the need for the latest issues related to the common security and defense policy of the European Union as an investigation of integration through European funding. War crises continue to increase at the European level and the fear of national governments put the European defense and security policy at the forefront. Years have passed where the transformation of the architecture of the European defense policy has employed through binding acts and not important steps towards an endless harmonization. The European Peace Facility and the continuous funding through projects of a lot of money at the European level imply the relations of the security and defense policy to follow a contribution towards a strategic autonomy of the Union that still needs many steps forward to protect peoples and save human lives.