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Central European Defence Cooperation | |
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 Map of Europe indicating the member countries of the Central European Defence Cooperation | |
| Membership | |
| Leaders | |
 Czech Republic[1] | |
| Establishment | 2010 |
| Area | |
• Total | 381,682 km2 (147,368 sq mi) |
| Population | |
• Estimate | 40,899,443 |
Website https://cedc.info/ | |
The Central European Defence Cooperation (CEDC) is a military collaboration consisting of the Central European states of Austria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia. Poland has an observer status in this cooperative framework.
The joint objective is enhancing the defence co-operation, including the pooling and sharing of defence capabilities of the member countries and organizing common training and exercises.[2][3] Since the European migrant crisis of 2015-2016 the cooperation has focused on handling mass migration too.[4]
The CEDC was created in 2010. All members are also members of European Union and all except Austria are in NATO. The presidency rotates yearly. As of 2023, the presidency is held by the Czech Republic.[5]
The CEDC geo-political borders are more or less the same borders of the former Habsburg monarchy, and its successors, the Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary. Territory of participating states is 381,682 km2 while the territory of the Austrian Empire in 1804 was 698,700 km2.
- ^ https://cedc.info/about-us/member-states/
- ^ Ćosić, Mirko. "Central European Defence Cooperation SOF Conference opens in Split - Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Croatia". www.morh.hr. Archived from the original on 17 August 2017. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
- ^ "Joint declaration of the ministers of defence of the Central European Defence Cooperation" (PDF).
- ^ Bence, Nemeth (2018). "Militarisation of cooperation against mass migration – the Central European Defence Cooperation (CEDC)". Defense & Security Analysis. 34: 16–34. doi:10.1080/14751798.2018.1421401.
- ^ "Current presidency". CEDC Info. Archived from the original on 2021-08-15. Retrieved 2021-08-15.
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