Defence, diplomacy, crises, powers
(B2) The European Commission could present on June 7 a new part of its European defense policy which will include, according to our information, several fairly concrete elements. The European Council, in December, asked
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(B2) Everyone speaks today of a revival of Europe through defence. The Versailles mini-summit echoed this (1), this point should be included in the Rome Declaration on 25 March. Again
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(B2) After quite a long discussion, Member States agreed in 2015 to introduce a permanent VAT exemption for projects and programs carried out within the European
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(B2 – exclusive) Delivered with forceps, the conclusions that should be approved by EU ministers (Foreign Affairs / Defence) on security and defense policy must define — according to what we
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(B2) European defense faces multiple challenges. Challenges that the director of the European Defense Agency wanted to put into perspective. At the Agency's annual conference, held on Thursday
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(B2) The appearance of Franco-German proposals on Defense should not mislead us. Beyond the common words, driven in large part by political leaders, there are singular nuances on both sides of the
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(B2) On Tuesday (25 October), the College of Commissioners approved its lines of work for 2017. The Juncker Commission maintains its policy of legislative sobriety with one principle: few texts but high added value. B2 read
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(B2) In Bratislava, before the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and parliamentarians, in Brussels, before the heads of EU delegations, Federica Mogherini hammered home the same message: we now need an "impetus
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(B2) François Hollande and Juha Sipilä, the French and Finnish presidents, released a joint statement on Wednesday (June 15) in Paris in which they affirm their common ambition to "strengthen the policy of
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(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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(BRUSSELS2) The Ministers of Defense and Foreign Affairs approved, on Monday (18 May), a new roadmap on security and defense policy (CSDP), before a new major meeting, in
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(BRUSSELS2) “Developments in defense markets endanger European autonomy”. This is the main message of the report adopted by the European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee on Monday (4 May). A
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(BRUSSELS2) During a meeting in “Weimar” format, Monday (March 30), near Potsdam, at the Henning-von-Tresckow barracks, the three Defense Ministers — Frenchman Jean-Yves Le Drian, German Ursula von der Leyen, the
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(BRUSSELS2) During the Franco-Polish summit which took place in Paris on Friday (January 30), between the French and Polish governments gave birth to a fairly agreed declaration. But the will of Paris to treat – on a
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(BRUSSELS2) For France, holding the “Defence Summit” is an important issue, in itself. Seeing this topic brought before Heads of State and Government has always been a French priority. The Defense Summit
Read(BRUSSELS2) “Give new impetus to European Union cooperation”. This is how the Prime Ministers of the four countries making up the Visegrad space (V4) sum up the challenge of the summit devoted to "the defense
Read(BRUSSELS2) Following a proposal from the Ministry of Defense and several interministerial meetings, Belgium has set its position on the CSDP for the European summit on 19 and 20 December. Unsurprisingly, we have here
Read(BRUXELLES2) A new “defence” sequence will take place at the Council of Ministers for Competitiveness (Industry), next Monday (2 December). The (Lithuanian) presidency thus circulated among the delegations a short document setting out the
Read(BRUSSELS2) The European Parliament approved last Thursday (21 November), with 421 votes in favor and 104 against, the resolution on the establishment of the common security and defense policy (CSDP), based on the report
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