WEU
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Ultimately, the WEU was asked to "study" how to improve protection of the 200 unarmed E.C. civilian monitors already in Yugoslavia.
From Time Magazine Archive
Britain has clung desperately to the WEU as its only regular forum for multilateral conversations with the Six.
From Time Magazine Archive
According to Dutch officials, moreover, their government moved to call the WEU meeting only to force gun-shy Bonn "to put up or shut up" on the proposal to commit troops.
From Time Magazine Archive
But others, including the U.S. -- which is not a member of the WEU and thus has the most influence to lose -- were more restrained.
From Time Magazine Archive
WEU will be developed as the defence component of the European Union and as a means to strengthen the European pillar of the Atlantic Alliance.
From The Treaty of the European Union, Maastricht Treaty, 7th February, 1992 by European Union
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