title: European defence cooperation and the Danish defence opt-out: report on the developments in the EU and Europe in the field of security and defence policy and their implications for Denmark
abstract: The Danish defence opt-out will hamper the protection of Danish interests if, in the future, there is dynamic integration, working towards increased European strategic autonomy. Conversely, the defence opt-out will be less important if the EU’s defence cooperation stagnates or is rolled back, for example due to internal disagreement among the member states.<br/><br/>These were the main findings in the external DIIS report from 2019 that has now been translated to English. The report was commissi