Defence, diplomacy, crises, powers
(BRUSSELS2) The complementarity of the three European Union missions in the Horn of Africa – EUNavfor Atalanta for the fight against piracy, EUCAP Nestor for maritime capacity building and EUTM Somalia for training
Read(B2) Released in recent days: A new 21-month mandate for EUTM Somalia. Mentoring and strategic advice on the horizon The European Security Strategy On the way to a new strategy The European Council
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(BRUSSELS2) The training mission of the Somali army (EUTM Somalia) will be extended from 1 April until 31 December 2016. A logical extension because the (re)training of the Somali army as well as its restructuring and
Read(B2 in Riga) The various discussions held on the sidelines of the informal meeting of Defense Ministers, on February 18 and 19, are apparently satisfactory according to the opinion of several participants in the meeting,
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(BRUSSELS2) The European Security Strategy (ESS) was adopted by the European Council on 12 and 13 December 2003. Its objective is to define the conceptual framework for foreign and security policy
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(BRUSSELS2) The rewriting of the European security strategy, put in place in 2003, is now officially under way. The Defense Ministers recognized this during the conclusions drawn by the Latvian Presidency of the Union
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(BRUSSELS2) There will indeed be a European Council with a “Defence” point in June. This question was a bit on the tangent a few weeks ago, with some procrastination, especially on the side of the president
Read(B2) Published in recent days EUMAM RCA, a laborious generation of force (with an update) OLAF opens an investigation into the conditions for awarding security contracts to the EEAS Michel Barnier returns
Read(BRUSSELS2) Exclusive – The establishment of the new European Union military mission in the Central African Republic (CAR) dedicated to advising and restructuring the Central African army (EUMAM RCA) – which must take
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(BRUSSELS2) The objective had been announced. It is now close to being held. The Polish government on Tuesday (February 17) adopted a draft law “on the reconstruction and technical modernization and the financing of military forces.
Read(BRUSSELS2 – exclusive) The Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) decided in mid-January to open an investigation into the award of public security contracts to the European diplomatic service (EEAS). Investigation opened into the complaint of
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(BRUSSELS2) Former European Commissioner for the Internal Market, Michel Barnier, has been appointed as special adviser to the President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, for European defense and security policy. The nomination
Read(BRUSSELS2) “Nothing has changed”. This is the French position in response to certain information (rumors) from a Russian diplomatic source relayed by the Interfax agency (Russian), evoking a delivery of the first ship
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(BRUXELLES2) The European Union has decided to hit Russian power and pro-Russians rather moderately. The new list published today (16 February) in the Official Journal of the EU actually includes 19 names of natural persons and
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(BRUSSELS2) The IntCen (Intelligence Center = intelligence analysis centre) is without doubt one of the EU's least known services. And for good reason ! It is an intelligence and information analysis service. This
Read(B2) Published in the last few days: The EU mainly hits second knives and 3 officials of the Russian General Staff The Minsk 2 agreement. A text which provides for a tight agenda for peace but zones
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(BRUSSELS2) The agreement signed in Minsk on the morning of February 12 between the Ukrainian and Russian belligerents is more detailed than some people wanted to say. And, above all, it includes a fairly precise calendar to
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(BRUSSELS2) The pace of European sanctions against Russia has now slowed down. If some measures are taken at the individual level, the worsening of the economic measures is, for the moment, in the freezer, waiting for the thaw… The setting
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(BRUSSELS2) François Hollande, the French president, officially confirmed it in a press release published in the middle of the European summit on Thursday (February 12): the sale of the French Rafale combat plane in Egypt has been acquired. " THE
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