In this interview, Colin Cameron, Secretary-General of the Assembly of Western European Union (WEU), discusses the consequences of the Treaty of Maastricht (Article J.4), which makes it possible for the European Union to have recourse to WEU for the development and implementation of EU decisions and actions having implications in the field of defence, thus giving WEU the role of defence arm of the EU.

In this interview, Colin Cameron, Secretary-General of the Assembly of Western European Union (WEU), describes the new statuses of accession to WEU, made possible by the Maastricht and Kirchberg Declarations of the WEU Council in 1991 and 1994. He discusses the advantages and disadvantages of these new statuses, in particular with regard to the question of membership of the Atlantic Alliance.

In this interview, Colin Cameron, Secretary-General of the Assembly of Western European Union (WEU), mentions the difficulties associated with the management of the various statuses of WEU Member States, along with the necessary adaptations and openness to third countries.

In this interview, Colin Cameron, Secretary-General of the Assembly of Western European Union (WEU), looks back at the details of the transfer to the European Union of some of WEU’s powers, following the 1997 Treaty of Amsterdam and the decisions taken by the WEU Council of Ministers in 1999 and 2000.

In this interview, Colin Cameron, Secretary-General of the Assembly of Western European Union (WEU), emphasises the de facto role played by the WEU Assembly in the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) pursued by the European Union.

In this interview, Colin Cameron, Secretary-General of the Assembly of Western European Union (WEU), emphasises the contributions made by WEU and its Assembly to the development of the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP), which aims to be complementary to the Atlantic Alliance and open to the establishment of closer relations with third countries.

In this interview, Colin Cameron, Secretary-General of the Assembly of Western European Union (WEU), recalls the reasons for the decision taken in 2008 to change the name of the WEU Assembly to the European Security and Defence Assembly.

In this interview, Colin Cameron, Secretary-General of the Assembly of Western European Union (WEU), describes the speculation surrounding the mutual assistance clause in the Treaty of Lisbon (Article 42, EU Treaty), signed in 2007 by the European Union Member States, along with the relative difficulties in its interpretation and the potential consequences for some WEU Member States.