Trinity House Agreement

The Trinity House Agreement (German: Trinity-House-Vereinbarung) was signed by the German Defense Minister, Boris Pistorius, and the British Secretary of State for Defence, John Healey, in London on October 23, 2024, to strengthen bilateral security cooperation and to "deepen defence cooperation across all domains".^[1] It is named after Trinity House, the place of the signing. It sets the course for closer cooperation in the defense and security policy of both countries and is intended to be an expression of the UK's realignment with Europe.^{[2][3][4][5][6]}

Projects

The agreement contains specific points for closer cooperation in all dimensions (air, land, sea, space and cyber defense):^[7]

• Strengthening the defense industry in both countries
• Strengthening the eastern flank of NATO
• Development of new long-range strike weapons
• Protection of critical underwater infrastructure
• Surveillance flights by the German Armed Forces from Scotland (RAF Lossiemouth)^[8]
• Unmanned aerial systems and their networking (for GCAP and FCAS programmes)
• Cooperation on air defense systems
• Continued support for Ukraine
• New discussion formats for collaboration

External links

• Trinity House Vereinbarung (bmvg.de)
• Trinity House Agreement On-Defence (gov.uk)