Select committee: European Affairs Committee
Recommendation 20
1st Report - The Ukraine Effect: The impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on the UK–EU relationship
Published 31 Jan 2024
Paragraph 141
European Affairs Committee Implications of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine for UK-EU relations All items in this report Report on parliament.uk ↗ Inquiry on parliament.uk ↗
Recommendation (the committee's words)
In line with previous conclusions by this Committee, we recommend that the UK should consider seeking third-country participation in additional PESCO projects, including capability development projects, where this would be in the UK’s interests. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has inevitably increased the EU’s ambitions for PESCO which, in turn, will have had an impact on the factors that the Government weighs when considering UK participation. We therefore ask the Government to provide us with its latest evaluation of the many PESCO projects currently envisaged by the EU and whether it considers participation in any of them to be in the UK’s interests.
From: European Affairs Committee, 1st Report - The Ukraine Effect: The impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on the UK–EU relationship, paragraph 141, 31 January 2024
Government response
A response document is linked to this report, dated 27 March 2024. Response attribution to this recommendation has not been verified. Read the response document ↗