European Union ↔ Slovenia

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Slovenia is a member state of the European Union that actively evaluates the organization's decision-making efficiency and strategic autonomy initiatives as described in [1], [2], [3], and [4].

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Independence play: Europe's pursuit of strategic autonomy ecfr.eu European Council on Foreign Relations 4 facts

perspectiveSlovenia believes European strategic autonomy (ESA) initiatives should be limited to the European Union's neighborhood, specifically the western Balkans, followed by eastern Europe and the Middle East.

perspectiveSlovenia regards NATO as a collective defense system protecting the European Union from external threats, and believes European strategic autonomy (ESA) initiatives can enable Europe to play a stronger role within the alliance and become a security actor in its neighborhood.

claimMost EU countries view European Strategic Autonomy (ESA) efforts as having mixed results, with Slovenia and Malta seeing little progress, and Croatia believing the EU is further away from achieving ESA than it previously was.

perspectiveSlovenia considers more efficient decision-making at the European Union level and efforts to strengthen the European Union's capabilities as crucial to increasing the European Union's contribution to NATO.