If the issue is setting standards, how hard would it be to just agree to set them together? Is NATO just being weird and possessive and not wanting to give the EU any input?
Also an interesting bit:
Turkey’s territorial dispute with Cyprus — a non-NATO member in the EU — is also making things more complicated between the two institutions. Turkish diplomats at NATO are unwilling to let alliance staff share too much information with the EU, as Cypriot officials would be able to access it. “You might think we’re having the war in Ukraine, and the two groups of ambassadors should be meeting as often as possible to discuss strategies,” a senior EU diplomat said. “That’s not the case, thanks to Turkey and Cyprus.”
Conflict in everyone’s favourite Balkan island strikes again.