B2 Pro The daily life of geopolitical Europe – Page 363

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December 3, 2015 B2 Writing 5 min read

(B2) Recently published: We must think about a training mission for the Libyan coastguards (Credendino) Faced with arms trafficking, the Commission is aligning a very soft action plan... The Commission is proposing a European definition for

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Business News North Africa - Libya

[Verbatim] We must think about a training mission for the Libyan Coast Guard (Credendino)

December 2, 2015 Nicolas Gros Verheyde 7 min read

(B2) What is the outcome of Operation EUNAVFOR Sophia, deployed in the Mediterranean against human traffickers, for six months? What avenues for the future? It is around these two main questions that Rear Admiral

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Business News Arming (export, disarming)Borders Immigration Asylum

Faced with arms trafficking, the Commission is aligning a very soft action plan…

December 2, 2015 B2 Writing 4 min read

(B2) Alongside an extension of the definition of terrorism to include foreign fighters, the European Commission presented, on Wednesday (2 December), an "action plan" to deal with the illegal trafficking of firearms.

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Business News Confidential Pro EU diplomacy

Friends of the Presidency group reflects on the future of foreign policy

December 2, 2015 Nicolas Gros Verheyde 1 min read

(B2) For several weeks, the Friends of the Presidency group has been working on improving working methods within the European Union. At the last meeting on December 1, the

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Confidential Pro Defense industry Police Terrorism Defense regulations

The Commission proposes a European definition for foreign fighters

December 1, 2015 Nicolas Gros Verheyde 2 min read

(B2) The European Commission must present, this Wednesday (2 December), a proposal for a directive aimed at supplementing the 2002 framework decision (revised in 2008) giving a definition of terrorism to integrate a whole set

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Business News Military cooperation (projects)

Another deal from Lancaster House. The Joint Expeditionary Force formalized

December 1, 2015 Nicolas Gros Verheyde 5 min read

(B2) The Ministers of Defense of seven NATO countries (Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway and the United Kingdom) affixed their signatures on Monday (30 November) at Lancaster House in London under the founding document

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'MEMO SHEET EU Institutions

[Memo Sheet] B2 Docs – European Summits

December 1, 2015 Nicolas Gros Verheyde 0 min read

2018 ENG / FRA Summit (December 14, 2018) ENG / FRA Summit (June 29, 2018) 2015 Special Summit with Turkey (November 29, 2015) French / English EU-Africa Summit: Action Plan and Declaration (La

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Watch book

Notebook (01.12.2015) Iran (Opic). Resettlement (Merkel). Relocation. Switzerland (contribution). Hybrid threats. United Kingdom (Syria). France (budget). MINUSMA. Israel-EU. Türkiye-Kurds. FYROM. Private security

December 1, 2015 B2 Writing 9 min read

(B2) Recently released: Charles Michel's (Belgium) call for a European CIA doesn't really meet with support 29-member NATO. Montenegro to get green light from Alliance Turkey gets

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Business News Information

[Verbatim] The call of Charles Michel (Belgium) to create a European CIA does not really meet with the support of the big countries

December 1, 2015 Nicolas Gros Verheyde 3 min read

(B2) Charles Michel's call, like that of certain other European leaders (in Parliament or in the Commission) to create a European intelligence agency does not really meet with enthusiasm among other European leaders. Even

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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Prime Minister of Montenegro Milo Djukanovic

Balkans Confidential Pro NATO

NATO has 29 members. Montenegro will get the green light from the Alliance

November 30, 2015 Nicolas Gros Verheyde 3 min read

(B2) Montenegro is getting closer to the Atlantic Alliance. NATO foreign ministers are expected to officially sign a letter of invitation to the Montenegrin authorities to join NATO on Wednesday (December 2). This

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Business News Neighborhood enlargement Borders Immigration Asylum

Turkey obtains privileged status with the EU in exchange for closing its border

November 30, 2015 Nicolas Gros Verheyde 7 min read

(B2) In Brussels, the 28 meeting this Sunday (November 29) in Brussels, decided to grant Turkey, in the absence of a place in the European Union, a rather privileged status, in exchange for collaboration more important

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Watch book

Notebook (29.11.2015) Portugal (government). EUCAP Sahel Mali (investigators). EUAM Ukraine (semi-failure). EUTM Mali (Slovakia). Defense College (budget). Germany (Daesh). Italy (UNIFIL). Poland-NATO. Bulgaria (Mig29). Slovak arms (trafficking). Radicalization. EU-League…

November 29, 2015 B2 Writing 13 min read

(B2) Recently published N°29. The migrant crisis became a refugee crisis, then a crisis in general The Commission's action plan to boost the defense industry Stability Pact and Security Pact

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@Frontex

'CASE Borders Immigration Asylum

[Dossier N°29] The migrant crisis of 2015 became a refugee crisis, then a crisis period (v8)

November 29, 2015 Nicolas Gros Verheyde 32 min read

(B2) Sunday, April 19, 2015 yet another shipwreck of a migrant boat causes the death of 800 people off the Italian coast. This plunges the European Union into an unprecedented migration crisis. The Mediterranean is then

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Pro Decryption EU defense (doctrine)Defense financing Defense industry Defense regulations

[Decryption] The Commission's draft action plan to boost the defense industry – Bieńkowska

November 28, 2015 B2 Writing 5 min read

(BRUSSELS2) Elżbieta Bienkowska, Commissioner for the Internal Market and Industry, intends to follow in the footsteps of her predecessors, Michel Barnier and Antonio Tajani, and take up the challenge of the defense industry. There

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(credit: EC)

Business News National Defense Doctrine EU Policy

[Verbatim] Stability Pact and Security Pact are not opposed. Let's use the flexibilities (Moscovici)

November 27, 2015 Nicolas Gros Verheyde 2 min read

(B2) Pierre Moscovici, Commissioner for the Economy and Financial Affairs, gave an update on Wednesday (25 November) on the application of the stability pact after the attacks in Paris. A situation of absolute priority.

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Watch book

Notebook (26.11.2015) EUBAM Libya (extension). EUAM Ukraine (budget). EUCAP Sahel Mali (OpPlan). EUNAVFOR Atalanta (crypto). No Paper migrations. Battlegroup Visegrad (HQ). African Union (support). Libya (concern). Lavrov (plane shot down). Türkiye…

November 26, 2015 B2 Writing 8 min read

(B2) recently published: The 28 put the turbo on the fight against terrorism. The 14 measures adopted on Friday The Security Council renews the authorizations for the fight against piracy in Somalia. Details A

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The French Ministers of Justice (C. Taubira) and of the Interior (B. Cazeneuve), in the background the European Commissioner D. Avramopoulos (credit: Council of the EU)

Pro Decryption Police Terrorism

[Decryption] The 28 are putting the turbo on the fight against terrorism. The 14 measures adopted on Friday

November 26, 2015 Nicolas Gros Verheyde 10 min read

(B2) The shootings at Charlie Hebdo in Paris in January, then in Copenhagen in February, raised the alarm. And the 28 had put themselves in battle order, updating a plan to fight against

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Operation Atalanta against piracy in the Horn of Africa operates under a UN mandate (Credits: Eunavfor Somalia)

East Africa - Horn of Africa Pro Decryption

[Decryption] The Security Council renews authorizations for the fight against piracy in Somalia. Details

November 25, 2015 B2 Writing 8 min read

(BRUSSELS2) Even if Somali piracy no longer poses as great a threat as in 2008-2010, the United Nations Security Council renewed, on 10 November (2015), for an additional year, the use of

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Business News Borders Immigration Asylum

Three billion in aid for Turkey: the action plan is being put in place

November 25, 2015 B2 Writing 2 min read

(B2) The facility fund of three billion euros in aid to Turkey materializes. The European Commission, meeting in Strasbourg on Tuesday (24 November), presented its proposed framework for the future instrument. Objective

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