Western European Union (WEU) is a defence organization which is responsible for undertaking the Petersberg Tasks—crisis management, rescue, peace-keeping and conflict prevention—for the European Union (EU). It also assists the North...

The Western European Union (WEU) is a partially dormant European defence and security organization, established on the basis of the Treaty of Brussels of 1948 with the accession of West Germany and Italy in 1954. It should not be confused with the...