In this interview, Colin Cameron, Secretary-General of the Assembly of Western European Union (WEU), particularly looks at WEU’s powers before the fall of Communism, emphasising the prevailing global bipolarity of the time and the increasing complexity of conflicts following the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

In this interview, Colin Cameron, Secretary-General of the Assembly of Western European Union (WEU), discusses the decision taken in 2000 to transfer a number of WEU's bodies and powers to the European Union's European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP), and regrets the absences of an overall European Defence.