Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have agreed to create a Baltic Military Mobility Area (MMA) to remove peacetime bottlenecks and allow troops to move more easily between the three countries.
The venture is billed as the military version of the European Union’s Schengen Zone, which allows citizens to move freely between countries with minimal hassle.
The ministers stressed the initiative is for peacetime and aims to remove cumbersome restrictions slowing down the movement of troops and equipment between countries and NATO allies.
“The point of the ‘miitary schengen’ is that we do not have any bureaucracy, any paperwork that needs to be done when militaries are moving from one European country to another,” Pevkur said at a press conference.
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Nice! 🙂
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Good news, this should help strengthen the reaction time of the JEF.
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Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have agreed to create a Baltic Military Mobility Area (MMA) to remove peacetime bottlenecks and allow troops to move more easily between the three countries.
Minister Hanno Pevkur and his Latvian and Lithuanian counterparts, Andris Sprūds and Robertas Kaunas, signed a[ **joint declaration of intent**](https://kaitseministeerium.ee/sites/default/files/3b_mc_joint_communique_27jan.pdf) in Tallinn on Friday to create the Baltic regional military mobility area.
The venture is billed as the military version of the European Union’s Schengen Zone, which allows citizens to move freely between countries with minimal hassle.
The ministers stressed the initiative is for peacetime and aims to remove cumbersome restrictions slowing down the movement of troops and equipment between countries and NATO allies.
“The point of the ‘miitary schengen’ is that we do not have any bureaucracy, any paperwork that needs to be done when militaries are moving from one European country to another,” Pevkur said at a press conference.
Nice! 🙂
Good news, this should help strengthen the reaction time of the JEF.