Members of the European Parliament and some 20 MPs from 14 countries of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (NATO PA) held a Joint High-Level Event entitled “Countering new threats together - a new era of EU-NATO cooperation” in the EP on 4-5 June. The main objectives of the inter-parliamentary meeting were to strengthen the parliamentary dimension of EU-NATO cooperation and to provide input of parliamentarians to the forthcoming NATO Summit in Brussels (11-12 July), where also a new EU-NATO Joint Declaration is planned to be signed. The event was opened by EP Vice-President Ioan Mircea Pascu and co-hosted by Eva Kaili, the Chair of the EP Delegation to the NATO PA, and Paolo Alli, the President of the NATO PA.
