Defence, diplomacy, crises, powers
(B2) What if a cyber attack brings down one or two member countries and threatens the others? It is around this scenario that diplomats and cyber experts began to work. Final step
Read(B2) Better coordinate the European crisis response with third countries. Be more flexible and faster in decisions. Also more political. This is the objective of the new mechanism set up by the European Union
Read(B2) In a long letter addressed this Friday (29 May) at the end of the afternoon to the High Representative of the EU, Josep Borrell, the Ministers of Defense of the four major countries of the Union insist on a point
Read(B2) In March, the German and Austrian Ministers of Foreign Affairs invoked the need to implement the solidarity clause of Article 222. Since then nothing has come to formalize this unusual act. Amazing
Read(B2) Berlin, like Vienna, sounded the alarm at the meeting of foreign ministers on Monday (March 23). Faced with the epidemic crisis, which is gaining momentum, they are asking for the activation of
Read(B2) In Prague, in a symbolic moment, that of the celebration of 30 years of the Velvet Revolution * which saw the fall of the communist government, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs Jean-Yves
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(B2) The question is already being asked in the corridors of the Atlantic Alliance in Brussels. What could NATO's reaction be if Turkey asks to play the Alliance's solidarity clause?
Read(B2) The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is a politico-military alliance born from the signature of the allied states of the "Western" bloc at the end of the Second World War both to reintegrate
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(B2) The new American Secretary of State Mike Pompeo wanted to be reassuring during the meeting of NATO Defense Ministers, Friday, April 27, on the solidarity clause. But he did not hesitate to
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(B2) In the aftermath of the measures announced by the British government after the use of a nerve agent in Salisbury (read: Salisbury attack. Theresa May announces a diplomatic but not financial response against Russia), the
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(B2) In Brussels, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson affirmed and repeated throughout the meeting of NATO foreign ministers on December 5 and 6: Article V –
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(B2) Recently published: On the agenda of the Foreign Affairs Council (11 December 2017) (blog) The EU deploys a mission to Baghdad to help the Iraqi internal security forces. For what ? (exclusive) Fifteen projects selected
Read(B2) Recently published: A new number 2 at the head of the EUNAVFOR Med operation (blog) Finland and Sweden sign for the joint expeditionary force G3 interior ministers agree to support Italy
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(B2) The Swedish and Finnish Defense Ministers, Peter Hultqvist and Jussi Niinisto, put their signatures on Friday (June 30) at Karlberg Castle in Stockholm (Sweden) on the Joint Expeditionary Force (Joint
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(B2) We remember that when he came to Brussels for the NATO summit, American President Donald Trump did not want to reaffirm transatlantic solidarity in a frank manner (Read: First visit of
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(B2) Noting that "the development of security and defense capabilities provided for by the Treaties has not yet taken place", the European Parliament, in a draft report, prepares its proposals for making a European Union of
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(B2 – exclusive) A note drafted by the legal department of the European Diplomatic Service, which B2 was able to read, defines the contours of article 42-7 — the solidarity clause provided for by the Lisbon Treaty
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(B2) After the attack in Nice on July 14, 2016, the French were tempted to re-trigger the solidarity clause of article 42-7. “Europe is not only a market and a currency, it is
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(B2 exclusive) The European Parliament is voting this Thursday (21 January) on a resolution on the mutual assistance/defence clause (art. 42.7). For MEPs, the invocation of this clause by France, in its "war"
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