Europe is safe! The European Council reaches an agreement

Written by Vicent Llorca Mascarell, Journalist, LIMUN 2026

After hours and hours of negotiations, debates, agreements, and some breaks the European Council has finally reached a resolution on the Security issues that were disturbing the European nations. The heads of state and government celebrated the resolution once it was passed unanimously, with not a single abstention. But, how was the process of closing the debate?

THE DRAFT RESOLUTION

First, the Draft Resolution was presented. One of the highlights was the questioning of the division of attacks in the labels of either ‘conventional attacks’ or ‘hybrid attacks.’ The committee seemed to agree that the terms’ division is unnecessary; however Belgium seemed to support the proposal. In the end, it was not included in the Final Resolution. 

Most of the rest of the talks about the Draft Resolution focused on the obsolescence of some clauses due to the messy process of combining ideas and Working Papers, especially in a committee as the European Council, where unanimity is required. All the national leaders appeared really involved in the process.

European Independence

Also, we could listen to voices of European sovereignty and independence, especially addressed to the United States. The Polish prime minister, Donald Tusk, for instance, affirmed that the most aggressive form of protectionism is not that of the EU, but rather the one Trump is trying to impose in the global order (making reference to tariffs and more).

Converging Positions

One Draft Resolution was in the end put to the test. However the process was mainly of ‘quibbling about minor details’ according to the Czech Republic prime minister. Bulgaria expressed the same idea with reference to the things that need to be adjusted: ‘half of it is redundant and the other half is poorly defined’.

When asked about the main topics that the resolution addresses, Austria said ‘we are having a back and forth debate’ about topics such as establishing a sort of EU peacekeeping unit (similar to the UN’s), national sovereignty, appropriateness of the use of the defence mechanisms, and so on. The country expressed its willingness to remain ‘constitutionally neutral’, and thus its preference for each country keeping its own military - unless in one of the ‘most severe cases’, during which all mechanisms should engage the continents’ defence. 

Procuring raw materials or allocating Europe’s military production in Europe (an increase from 35 per cent to 45 per cent of the production) are some of the economic initiatives agreed by the committee.

On the military side, we can see a focus on cybersecurity, but also on renewing the internal network of security and expanding the already existing Air Shield.

Another important achievement is the consensus on the need for fast responses, but not reckless speed, as Poland stated. We have also known that Portugal has played a major role in the definition and formalisation of a Crisis Committee, aiming to give a response to these pressing situations.

Also Cyprus emphasised the need for a specifically European system of defence, since not every member country is also partaker of NATO or the associated Partnership for Peace. 

Finally six amendments were proposed, with two of them being unfriendly. All of them passed. We can highlight the Hungarian and German amendment to increase the number of members on the Board from 7 to 9 in an effort to fade away hierarchies among states. 

Despite some tense moments in the room, the European countries are a Union in the end,and are all on the same page. Once again, the EU has achieved a resolution! But, will peace prevail? We hope it does.