Defence, diplomacy, crises, powers
(B2) It will be ten years Monday, March 15 that the revolt of young Syrians, in the wake of the Arab spring was expressed. The severe repression by the Assad regime, the sequence of the cycle of violence make it
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(B2) The visit of the Turkish Minister for Foreign Affairs to Brussels, where he had a string of high-level meetings, gives hope for the opening of a new less bumpy sequence between the European Union and Turkey, as in the
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(B2) How to supervise the European Defense Fund? It is around this question that the MEPs reflected on Wednesday (September 25), with one of the researchers from the institute for studies on the security of
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(B2) Recently released: Rovana Plumb and Laszlo Trocsanyi are in the same boat. Who will fall in the water? Operation Sophia extended for six months, still without naval means (exclusive) The Ministers of the Interior of
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(B2 – exclusive) The head of the LREM list for Europeans, Nathalie Loiseau, has not lost her outspokenness. The exclusive interview she gave to B2 proves it The new president of the Defense sub-committee of the
Read(B2 in Strasbourg) The new Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament will comprise 71 members, as announced. Its composition was validated on Wednesday (July 3) by the Parliament meeting in its first plenary session, constitutive, in
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(B2) The renewal of the mandate of peacekeepers in Congo (MONUSCO) is "essential" to ensure the smooth running of the elections scheduled for the end of the year. This is the message conveyed by Douglas Carpentier, Chief
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(B2) “Lessons” can and must be learned from European Union CSDP missions and operations. This is precisely what the Inter-Services Working Group on CSDP Lessons is doing (1),
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(B2) Is the Baltic Sea forgotten by Europeans? This is precisely what worries Finns and Swedes, for whom “it is often difficult to draw the attention of the European Union to this region”. However, the tensions
Read(B2) Recently published: The Canarias frigate joins Operation Sophia (blog) Who will be a member of the AFET, SEDE and LIBE commissions? Committees that matter in the European Parliament: chairs and coordinators Change of number
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(B2) On Thursday 19 January, the European Parliament decided on the composition of the parliamentary committees for the second half of the legislature, ie for the next two and a half years. B2 passed these lists
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(B2) For the committees in charge of security issues, barring a last-minute surprise, a certain status quo could be maintained. Everything will be official next week. The vote for the chairs and vice-chairs of the parliamentary committees will have
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(B2) Create a special commission or commission of inquiry (*) into the terrorist attacks which hit Paris, Brussels and Berlin, such is the intention of the Christian Democrats (EPP) group in the European Parliament. A proposal that was
Read(B2) Recently published: The EU and NATO want to define the markers of a renewed cooperation. Objective: to overcome the ghosts of the past Sea Guardian: a limited-scale operation (blog) EUTM Mali's priorities: re-training,
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(B2) Is Ukraine moving forward on the path of reform? Where is the reform of the security sector? and concretely that of the police? The head of the European support mission for the reform of the
Read(B2) Recently published: Coreper, body for all compromises EUCAP Libya, the Libyan police and justice support mission, is preparing And on the blog: In Berbera, a center for
Read(B2) Recently released: Operation Active Endeavor is about to be transformed. EU-NATO coordination in the Mediterranean under study A Belgian general at the head of EUTM Mali from July Freeze of funds confirmed for the Sharif
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(B2) If pirate attacks seem to be largely decreasing off Somalia, in the Gulf of Guinea, this does not seem to be the case on the other side of the continent. Two years after the adoption of the
Read(B2) Released in recent days: The contact group on Syria results in a first declaration in 9 points The “Belarus” sanctions (almost) all suspended. The good guys, the bad guys, the ugly guys. Details… The
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