Defence, diplomacy, crises, powers
(B2) Meeting on Friday March 15 in Berlin, the three leaders of the Weimar triangle sought to silence their differences, especially Paris and Berlin. This exercise was intended to be a kind of group therapy
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(B2) The Belgian presidency will have to work extra hard to complete as many files as possible by April 2024 and the end of the current legislature and before Hungary takes over in July.
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(B2) In a few months, the previously consensual subject of support for Ukraine has become very delicate. Heads of state and government will have to decide on Thursday. Which is not obvious. The draft conclusions, still
Read(B2) Just before his departure from the Luxembourg government, Jean Asselborn, the dean of foreign policy among Europeans, agreed to share with us the fruit of his experience. Twenty years of holding the handle
Read(B2) In front of a selected audience of soldiers, researchers, experts in geopolitics, students, Nathalie Loiseau (Horizons/Renew), delivered a vibrant appeal to Europeans to become aware of their assets - democracy, prosperity, peace -, assets
Read(B2) How can we guarantee that our institutions will continue to function when the EU has almost a dozen more Member States? It is based on this question that the German Minister of Foreign Affairs
Read(B2) A draft report to the European Parliament recommends completely amending Article 42 of the Treaty on European Union, relating to the common security and defense policy (CSDP).
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(B2) Democratic resilience and enlargement. This is what conditions the future of Europe, for its security and prosperity, explained Czech President Petr Pavel in a plea in Strasbourg. Frankly pro-European. Former president
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(B2) In her State of the Union speech, the last of the legislature, Ursula von der Leyen sets a horizon and a major ambition: “Complete the Union to 30 and more”. But without
Read(B2) A long sea serpent, the accession of the European Union to the European Convention on Human Rights still comes up against a concrete obstacle: the common foreign and security policy. The point must be
Read(B2) The union of the future will be a Europe of 35. At least it is around this model that certain leaders, in particular French and German, reflect. Paris has already set its conditions: expand yes, but reorganize
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(B2) “We need to understand what is happening and remember the past”. These words of the Lithuanian President at the end of the hour and a half of exchanges with the MEPs in plenary in Strasbourg,
Read(B2) Germany's strategic repositioning and its desire to take the lead in European defense weigh heavily on the relationship between Paris and Berlin. The end of the unsaid has come to light since
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(B2) For Zuzana Čaputová, the defense of democratic values must be the battle of battles. To be carried out both outside and inside the European Union. The Slovak president castigates the attacks of illiberals like
Read(B2) A new European structure intended to unite all of the enlarged Europe was already thought out after the Berlin Wall. By the French and the Czechs precisely. The European confederation then collapsed. For what
Read(B2 – exclusive) The kick-off of the European political community given, B2 insisted on meeting its smallest guest: Liechtenstein. A Lilliputian on the scale of the Greats. Its prime minister, Daniel Risch, has
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(B2 in the European Parliament) The Russian war in Ukraine, the European reaction, its short-term consequences and its longer-term lessons were the leitmotif of his State of the Union address. A
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(B2 in the European Parliament) The speech of the Finnish Prime Minister is clear, direct, determined. Without historical references or frills. Centered on the war in Ukraine. Europe has no future unless it is united around its values and bold
Read(B2) In the grounds of Karel University in Prague, on Monday (29.08), the German Chancellor laid the groundwork for a new European defense policy, as well as sovereignty, advocating significant developments and a change of treaty,
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