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ByJohn-ThorDahlburg The Associated Press BRUSSELS Theybothhave their headquarters in Bel- gium's capital and they pro- fess many of the same val- ues and goals, but until re- cently the NATO defense alliance and the European Union economic bloc have acted like wary neighbors with little to say to one an- other. That's despite the fact that 22 prosperous West- ern democracies with more than 450 million citizens are members of both organiza- tions, and both have been key to building and keeping the postwar order in West- ern Europe. This summer, the old standoffish ways are to change dramatically and the keyword will be cooper- ation, primarily because of Russia's new military might and assertiveness, the threat of armed Islamic extremism and Europe's continuing mi- gration crisis. SomeintheEUinthepast have seen NATO as a Trojan horse for the trigger-happy United States to keep exer- cising domination over Eu- rope. Meanwhile, some at NATO saw the EU — which also has security and mili- tary responsibilities — as a potential competitor. "Neither of these two in- stitutions that are sepa- rated by, what, two miles or something here in Brussels, should be separated by the kindofinstitutionaldistance that we've seen in the past," Douglas Lute, U.S. ambassa- dor to NATO, said recently. When U.S. President Barack Obama and other NATO leaders sit down to- gether in Warsaw next month, the two multina- tional groupings should formally agree to cooper- ate in several fields, includ- ing fighting new threats to their own citizens' security and helping bolster the de- fense and law-enforcement institutions of fragile states like Libya and Iraq. "We need to take our co- operation to a higher level, and that's exactly what we are working on now," NATO Secretary-General Jens Stol- tenberg said as he hosted a visit by the EU's foreign pol- icy chief, Federica Mogh- erini, to alliance headquar- ters last month. On Wednesday Stolten- berg planned a closed-door meeting with top EU offi- cials Donald Tusk and Jean- Claude Juncker. Mogherini, a former Ital- ian foreign minister, has saidtheofficialcalendarthis summer will provide "excel- lent synergy" for forging the better working relationship between the two interna- tional organizations that she and Stoltenberg have advo- cated. The week before NA- TO'sJuly8-9summit,Mogh- erini is scheduled to pres- ent the EU's first redrafted global security strategy in 13 years to a meeting of the bloc's 28 leaders in Brussels. The new EU document is expected to take note of a dramatically altered stra- tegic landscape: one where Russia is an increasingly worrisome neighbor, and where the Islamic State ex- tremist group can exploit the territorial enclave it has carved out in the Middle East to stage bloody attacks inEuropeancapitals,includ- ing Brussels itself. "No country alone, and not even a united Europe, can carry the whole world on its shoulders," Mogh- erini said in a major pol- icy address she delivered in Paris in April. She predicted that "our cooperation with the U.S. and NATO can only grow stronger." Already this year, NATO andtheEUhavereachedfor- mal agreements on the swift exchange of information in the event of cyberattacks, as well as deployment of alli- ance warships to the Aegean Sea to help stop human traf- fickers from bringing people from Turkey to Greece. Institutional relations be- tween NATO and the EU were launched in 2001, and in 2010, NATO allies ex- pressed their determination to improve the NATO-EU strategic partnership. But only recently has there been much payoff. "We have concluded more arrangements in the past three months than in the previous 13 years," Stolten- berg said last month. "We can and must do more." Already, NATO military and civilian experts are pon- dering how they can use les- sons learned in the Aegean to support Operation So- phia, an EU action mounted to shut down people-smug- gling operations in the cen- tral Mediterranean. Work is also underway to draft "playbooks" to help NATOandtheEUcloselyco- ordinate their response to so-called hybrid threats — the use of nonconventional tactics as well as military means to achieve a strate- gic objective — and react quicklyintandemwhenthey occur."Thisfocusesoninfor- mation-sharing, civil pre- paredness, cyber and stra- tegic communications," said NATO spokeswoman Oana Lungescu. "The idea of the playbooks is to identify who does what if our nations and organizations come under hybrid attack." Russia's prowess in mobi- lizing non-military and un- conventional assets — in- cluding social and mass media,energyandothereco- nomicresourcesandcivilor- ganizations, showcased in the Kremlin's 2014 take- over of Crimea — has been ofparticularconcerntoboth NATO and the EU. "What these organiza- tions are discovering is that NATO has some capabilities, the EU has others, more in the civilian component, and that the organizations are highly complementary if they work together," said Heather Conley, a former U.S. deputy assistant secre- tary of state. A joint state- ment is being prepared for signatureinWarsaw,saidan alliance official who was not authorized to make public remarksandspokeoncondi- tion of anonymity. That doc- ument is expected to focus on specific areas for future pooled efforts, including countering hybrid and cyber threats,increasingmaritime security and helping partner nations build their military. AtbothNATOandtheEU, "pragmatism finally has sort of taken hold," said Conley, director of the Europe Pro- gram at the Washington- based Center for Strate- gic and International Stud- ies. She cautioned, however, that "it's going to take quite a while for these two orga- nizations to really figure out their modus operandi in the future." NATO, EU Big Brussels neighbors, once wary, stepping up cooperation GEERTVANDENWIJNGAERT—THEASSOCIATEDPRESSFILE NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, le , speaks with European Union High Representative Federica Mogherini during a meeting at the European Council building in Brussels. By Hamza Hendawi The Associated Press CAIRO An EgyptAir plane that made an emergency landing Wednesday in Uz- bekistan following a bomb threat resumed its flight and landed in Beijing, Egyptian officials said, the latest in a series of deadly or damaging air travel inci- dents involving Egypt. The officials said no bomb was found after the Airbus A330-220 and its passengers were searched by explosives experts. The plane took off for the Chi- nese capital four hours af- ter it landed in the town of Urgench, about 840 ki- lometers (600 miles) west of the Uzbek capital, Tash- kent. According to the offi- cials, an anonymous caller telephoned security agents at the Cairo airport to say a bomb was on board EgyptAir Flight 955, which had 135 passengers and crew on board. The agents immediately contacted the aircraft and ordered it to land at the nearest air- port, the officials said. They spoke on condition of ano- nymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media. Russian news agency RIA Novosti quoted an unnamed official with Uz- bekistan Airways as say- ing the airport in Urgench was closed following the EgyptAir plane's emer- gency landing. The incident came nearly three weeks after an EgyptAir flight crashed in the Mediterranean Sea as it was approaching the Egyp- tian coast while en route to Cairo from Paris. All 66 people on board were killed and the search for the plane's flight and data recorders — the so called black boxes — is still un- derway. Egyptian officials say the Paris-Cairo plane was most likely downed by an act of terror. EMERGENCY EgyptAir plane lands in China following bomb threat InPrintEveryTuesday-Thursday-Saturday Online:Publishes24/7 www.redbluffdailynews.com Threeadditionalonline locations at no extra cost! 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