Defence, diplomacy, crises, powers
(B2 – exclusive) The EU court ruled in favor, on Thursday (12) December, of a former expert from the EUCAP Sahel Niger mission, at least on the form. It thus quashed the refusal of the
Read(B2 – exclusive) The Europeans have chosen continuity to ensure the direction of the new civilian mission to advise internal security forces (EUAM RCA) by entrusting this work to the current head of the
Read(B2 – Exclusive) A change of leadership will take place at the beginning of 2020 for the EU mission to advise the Iraqi internal security forces (EUAM Iraq), but not of nationality Markus Ritter who heads this
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(B2 – exclusive) We are beginning to learn more about the maritime surveillance and situational awareness mission, set up at the initiative of France, called EMASOH – European-Led mission Awareness Strait of
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(B2 – exclusive) The High Representative of the EU has prepared the recommendation to launch the formal procedure for the adoption of the third wave of Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) projects Greater participation
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(B2 – exclusive) The concept on coordinated maritime presences was prepared with the utmost discretion by the EEAS. It should be discussed, for the first time at ministerial level, during the
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(B2) Several thousand internal emails, received or exchanged externally, sometimes innocuous, sometimes confidential, by European civil servants posted in Moscow could have been read by foreign 'services', incognito, without
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(B2 – exclusive) It is a name well known to B2 readers who will take over the general management of the European Union (EUMS or EMUE) next year: Admiral Hervé Bléjean. He will replace
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(B2 – Exclusive) The European Parliament must validate in April the agreement reached with the Council on the European Defense Fund (EDF) on February 19, at the end of a third trialogue. But in the hallways the battle is
Read(B2) The Council of the EU must approve the renewal of restrictive measures against certain Ukrainian officials of the Yanukovych regime in power in Ukraine until 2014, suspected of embezzlement The decision prepared in the
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(B2 – exclusive) Council and Parliament negotiators reached an agreement overnight (19-20 February 2019) on the regulation of the future European Defense Fund for
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(B2 – exclusive) Foreign Ministers are giving the green light on Monday (February 18) to the regionalization of the Common European Security and Defense Policy (CSDP) in the Sahel. This new initiative
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(B2) The management of the European External Action Service (EEAS) is fine-tuning a reform of its crisis management structures, or more precisely of some of them. The winds of change have reached the ears
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(B2 – exclusive) The European Union will provide financial support to the United Nations Verification and Inspection Mechanism (UNVIM). Mechanism responsible for facilitating the free movement of commercial items in Yemen, after the embargo imposed
Read(B2) Among all the hot topics that will 'rise' at the European Summit on June 28 and 29 (Brexit, Migrations, Rule of Law, Russia, USA, etc.), advances in security and defense have been
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(B2) In its latest report on terrorism, Europol outlines the 12 trends of a phenomenon that still threatens Europe The modus operandi More numerous but less sophisticated attacks In recent years, there have been
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(B2 – exclusive) European diplomats began discussing on Thursday (21 June) a proposal by the High Representative to put in place a legal framework to be able to impose sanctions against the Maldives. In
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(B2) Defense ministers are expected to approve on June 25 in Luxembourg a decision setting the rules of governance governing permanent structured cooperation (PESCO). Maximum flexibility was left to each
Read(B2 – exclusive) A complaint has apparently been lodged against a senior official of the European diplomatic service (EEAS), who has significant hierarchical responsibilities in crisis management structures. The EEAS Ombudsman
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