Defence, diplomacy, crises, powers
(B2) Fruit of a reflection that lasted more than a year, the United Kingdom publishes this Tuesday (16.03) its strategic review 'Global Britain in a competitive age'. Nuclear deterrence regains color, cyber has the
Read(B2) £16,5 billion more, or four billion more a year, is the investment in the UK Armed Forces for the next four years. Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced it
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(B2) Will the American decision to withdraw a few thousand soldiers from Afghanistan and Iraq be the signal for the Europeans to re-engage in these countries, or a similar decision? … We lean towards this
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(B2) The bombardments and fighting in Libya bring attention back to this crisis zone close to the European borders. In Europe and NATO, the news remains focused on the management of the consequences of the crisis linked
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(B2) While attention is beginning to focus on managing the medium-term impact of the Covid-19 crisis, the crisis is not over. And within the European Commission, like '27'
Read(B2) The British government of Boris Johnson has abandoned any idea of having an autonomous European maritime protection operation in the Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, as the previous government had indicated. But he is,
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(B2) Boris Johnson's government will not be made up of soft people. In the main sovereign positions, there are supporters of a hard or even very hard Brexit
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(B2) The results of the internal elections for the Conservative Party fell on Tuesday (July 23): as expected, Boris Johnson becomes the leader of the party and therefore the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom with 66% of the votes.
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(B2) Faced with the expected American decision to partially reinstate sanctions on Iran, Europeans are worried. They want to maintain the agreement negotiated for many years on Iranian nuclear power. In turn, the
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(B2) The Council of Foreign Ministers of the EU reacted on Monday (March 19) in a fairly clear way after the attack in Salisbury in the United Kingdom on March 4, calling into question, like of
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(B2) On the eve of a major decision by US President Donald Trump to decide whether or not to reinstate additional sanctions against Iran, the three E3 foreign ministers (Frenchman Jean-Yves
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(B2) The United Kingdom had already made this known, B2 echoed this on several occasions (1). It is now official. London offers the European Union "a deep security partnership" after Brexit. In
Read(B2) Recently published: Security support and humanitarian aid, the two priorities of the EU in the Horn of Africa The Germans propose a series of projects to put in the PESCO Free Trade Agreement
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(B2) During the traditional Munich security conference, which took place on February 17 and 18, the positioning of the new American administration of Donald Trump was in all the comments whether it was
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(B2) The “historic” conference on Cyprus this Thursday, January 12 will not have led to the long-awaited and hoped-for announcement of reunification. The agreement on the reunification of Cyprus is however "close",
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(B2) Since our last review of the heads of European diplomacy (EU foreign ministers) and defense (EU defense ministers), several new ministers have taken
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(B2) The meeting of Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Defense on November 14 and 15 was the occasion for several statements and positions on the various topics on the agenda...
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(B2) The conclusions adopted by the 28 ministers of the European Union on security and defense policy define a "qualitative leap" which breaks certain taboos, allowing the Defense Union
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(B2) This might come across as an April Fool's joke. It is not! Britain's new Prime Minister Theresa May has named Boris Johnson, the Brexit campaigner and former mayor of
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