Defence, diplomacy, crises, powers
(B2 – exclusive) Brexit obliges, the United Kingdom will be expelled from February 1 at midnight (Brussels time) from the European Defense Agency (EDA). And their return may not take place as quickly as hoped.
Read(B2) The European Defense Agency and the European Investment Bank (EIB) signed a program agreement establishing a Cooperative Financial Mechanism (CFM), on 9 December, to encourage funding The Cooperative Financial Mechanism (CFM)
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(B2) Researcher Dominika Kunertova (Center for War Studies, University of Southern Denmark) recently published a study on drones in Europe. She draws up an inventory of these machines and notes the
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(B2 – exclusive) Despite the European Union's efforts to take a prominent place on the European security chessboard, NATO remains number one, for Raimundas Karoblis, the Lithuanian Minister of Defense The President
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(B2) The meeting of EU Defense Ministers was quite dense and active on Tuesday (12 November), with different topics where Ministers (or their representatives) were quite vocal The meeting was
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(B2) With the thirteen new projects approved on Tuesday (12 November), under permanent structured cooperation, we will reach 47 projects. In other words, we are on the verge of implosion. Hence a necessary break Thirteen
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(B2) Contrary to the wishes of some, and as announced by B2, there was no progress at the ministerial meeting on Tuesday (12 November) on the sensitive issue of the participation of third countries
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(B2) Ten years after the signing of the Lisbon Treaty, 25 Member States succeeded in finally launching, on 11 December 2017, the Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO or PESCO) in defense matters. Be there
Read(B2 – exclusive) If we take a quick little analysis of project participation, the third wave is quite interesting because it brings a certain rebalancing in Europe, both in
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(B2 – exclusive) The question of the participation of third countries is the last major point to be settled in terms of the organization of permanent structured cooperation. Consensus remains difficult to obtain. B2 dissected
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(B2) The Austrian project, carried out under permanent structured cooperation, will be hosted from Tuesday (12 November) within the European Defense Agency. A first The nuclear, radiological, surveillance drone project,
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(B2) The second joint conference of the European Defense Agency (EDA) and NATO on aerial refueling (AAR) on October 17 also brought together the industry, and made it possible to set the efforts to be made in
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(B2) “Carrramba, again rrrr! we could say to ourselves, using the famous expression of Tintin's parrot. EU ambassadors failed to reach an agreement on Wednesday (6 November) within
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(B2) Paris and Berlin seem to agree to promote the export of military equipment designed and manufactured jointly. It is not yet a common policy. But the desire is clear: to deconflict the question. To the
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(B2) Intended to facilitate the movement of armies in Europe across borders, military mobility still raises some questions about its real purpose. The short debate at the Security and Defense Sub-Committee
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(B2 – exclusive) France and Germany are close to an agreement on the export of arms resulting from their cooperation. The negotiations are progressing well behind the scenes French and Germans had agreed within the framework of the
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(B2) The European Defense Agency (EDA) approved in late August the launch of a project to develop a swarm of biomimetic underwater vehicles for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance
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(B2 in Marches-en-Famenne) One year after the creation of a Franco-Belgian strategic partnership 'Capacité Motorisée' (CaMo), Colonel Manuel Monin, CaMo project manager for Belgium, takes stock How would you define this CaMo program in
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(B2 – exclusive) The High Representative of the EU has prepared the recommendation to launch the formal procedure for the adoption of the third wave of Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) projects Greater participation
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