Defence, diplomacy, crises, powers
(B2) It will have taken barely a few hours between the announcement of the breakdown of discussions with Airbus for its Caracal and the opening of negotiations with the American industrialist Lockheed Martin, manufacturer of Black Hawk helicopters. Monday
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(B2 – exclusive) As the European Union police mission in Afghanistan (EUPOL Afghanistan) draws to a close, Pia Stjernvall takes stock of 10 years of European presence with the Afghan police.
Read(B2) Recently published: A Czech envoy to Syria to open the dialogue? *Poland plays empty chair policy at meetings of defense ministers*Coastguard training
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(B2) The training of the Libyan Coast Guard, one of the new functions of Operation Sophia, will start well on October 24, confirmed Rear Admiral Credendino, Commander of the European Operation EUNAVFOR Med / Sophia, before the parliamentarians ( *),
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(B2) In front of an audience of personalities, in Paris, on October 7, the President of the Commission Jean-Claude Juncker repeated some of his strong convictions. We have to build Defense Europe, and in particular put
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(B2) The first of the European crisis management missions was carried out in the Balkans while the security and defense policy (ESDP) was not yet born The civil-military observation mission in
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(B2) The Finnish Ministry of Defense signed a letter of intent in September with the Rauma shipyard for the construction of four new Laivue 2020 type ships.
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(B2) Recently published: New tasks for EUNAVFOR Med Sophia. Not without difficulty Commonly managed European border (and coast) guards. Here we go!* CSDP priorities need to be rethought. Syria
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(B2) The German Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe (Bundesgerichtshof) on Thursday (October 6) refused to pay compensation to Afghan victims of an air strike carried out in 2009 near Kunduz at the request of a German commander.
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(B2) The implementation of two new tasks for Operation Sophia (EUNAVFOR Med), from the summer of 2016, has changed its focus. The EUNAVFOR Med force is no longer concerned only with making
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(B2) The report on the implementation of the Common Security and Defense Policy (CSDP) comes this year at a crucial moment: in the midst of a strategic discussion on the future of Europe, the redefinition of
Read(B2) Should or can damages be awarded to persons or entities whose assets have been wrongfully frozen by the European Union? A delicate question, both legally and politically, that will
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(B2) Although the European Union initially relied more on the means of NATO or other organisations, it has become, over time, more autonomous and has deployed larger numbers of personnel on
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(B2) The idea of setting up a European corps of border guards is not new. It dates back to the early 2000s (I). But it took the major migrant and refugee crisis, to
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(B2) Poland considers as "completed" the negotiation on the compensation agreement with Airbus for the purchase of Caracal (H225M) helicopters by the Polish army, the Polish Ministry of Development announced on Tuesday (4 October). "
Read(B2) Recently published: Arms control off Libya: Jacoubet relays L'Her* On the agenda of the Brussels conference on Afghanistan The European call for humanitarian evacuations in
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(B2) Brussels hosts for a day and a half, Tuesday and Wednesday (October 4 and 5), a Conference on Afghanistan, entitled: "a partnership for prosperity and peace" More than 70 countries will be
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(B2) Several multinational units and staffs have been established by specific treaties, between a few member states. Their existence, outside the structures of the European Union or NATO, as well as the sometimes absence of political will,
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(B2) The Romanian Defense Minister, Mihnea Motoc, symbolically took delivery, on Wednesday (September 28), at Monte Real Air Base No. 5 in Leiria, of the first six second-hand F-16s out of the twelve that
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