The EU’s Lisbon Treaty mentions “permanent structured cooperation” in security and defense policy, and an entire institutional apparatus of political and military committees exists to anticipate, prepare for, and implement military operations at the European level. But this mechanism lacks the common political will needed to activate it; the less it is used, the less usable it will become.
欧盟里斯本条约提到在安全和防务政策上实行“永久的结构性合作”，并设立了政治和军事委员会作为完整的制度性机构处理欧洲层面的预测、准备和实施军事行动事宜。但这一机制缺乏激活它所需要的共同政治意愿；而这一机制使用得越少，其可用性就越低。