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This paper examines the need for greater EU defense cooperation if the Union is to pursue a more effective Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). The author believes that purely national defense structures are becoming strategically damaging and economically unsustainable for Europe's countries. This, she suggests, combined with the reductions of military spending related to the economic crisis and the burden of costs of defense fragmentation, is leading these countries and EU institutions to slowly move towards deeper cooperation.