nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/67d0cafc05892904 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 260428s2026||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/67d0cafc05892904 doi eng 342 23 Blockmans, Steven Author aut Pioneers Wanted - On the Differentiated Integration Pathways Towards a Genuine European Defence Union Blockmans, Steven Verfassungsblog 2026-04-28 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier With full-scale war on the European continent and doubts about US support, the EU still treats this existential security crisis like a regular bureaucratic undertaking. It is against this backdrop that Commissioner Kubilius is expected to engineer a genuine European Defence Union – and in our view, raising the right legal questions amounts to answering them: differentiated integration, pursued by a core group of willing member states, is the way forward. CC BY-SA 4.0 CFSP CSDP Enhanced Cooperation European Defence Union PESCO Meijer, Karsten Author aut Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/european-defence-union-intergovernmental/ raw object