Defence, diplomacy, crises, powers
(B2) With a notable absence, that of the Azerbaijani president, Ilham Aliyev, and the refusal of the Kosovars to meet their Serbian counterparts, the meeting of the European political community lost a good part of its
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(B2) The attack carried out by Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh on September 19, causing the exodus of almost all the Armenians who lived there, angers a part of the European Parliament, which has no words
Read(B2) The Europeans are trying to force an agreement between the two capitals. Agreement which amounts to a imitation of recognition between two States, or even a peace agreement. Except that these words are not pronounced expressly. The ten
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(B2) Recently published: The discussion on the CFSP and CSDP reports continues (blog) Ursula von der Leyen's way of the cross ends (blog) European and international reactions after the death of 13
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(B2) Recently published: Europeans protest against the application of the Helms-Burton law (blog) End of training for the 3rd Somali light infantry company (blog) Review of the evacuation of French gendarmes and experts from EUBAM
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(B2) The Council of the EU on Friday (21 December) added seven names to the list of persons subject to restrictive measures due to the situation in Myanmar/Burma. border police
Read(B2) Recently published: Unprecedented summit in Istanbul to unblock the Syrian crisis Parliament wants to call for increased control of arms exports and an embargo on Saudi Arabia (blog) A pirate ship spotted by
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Call to end the violence The ministers call on all parties to put an "immediate end to all forms of violence". But one responsible is particularly singled out: the army of Myanmar/the
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(B2) The tension between Ukraine and Hungary is not decreasing. On the contrary. Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said so in Ungvár (Uzhgorod, Ukraine) on Tuesday (10 October). Hungary intends
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(B2) The European position for the UN Human Rights Council is normally a fairly ritualistic affair. It is on the way to becoming more problematic as the national stakes within
Read(B2) The 28 EU Foreign Ministers reaffirmed, on Monday 15 May, the commitments made in October 2016 in the working document on the defense of indigenous populations and their
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(B2) The European Union wanted to renew its commitment on Monday (20 June) to "stand alongside" the Burmese government and civil society to make Myanmar a "vibrant democracy". This is the meaning of the conclusions
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(B2) Recently released: Parliament revises border guard proposal. Details A Finn succeeds an Austrian at the head of the General Staff Army, police, coast guard… why I refuse the policy of El-Sarraj (Omar al-Aswad)
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(BRUSSELS2) The German and British Foreign Ministers, Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Philip Hammond, proposed on Thursday (November 5), at the Conference on the Balkans of the Aspen Institute in Berlin, to revitalize the process of rapprochement
Read(BRUSSELS2) Viktor Yushchenko, former Ukrainian Prime Minister (from 1999 to 2001) and former President (from 2005 to 2010), does not consider himself “responsible” for the current crisis. During his tenure between
Read(BRUSSELS2) The Foreign Ministers of the European Union were particularly firm on Monday (22 July) regarding the political situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In a short (three paragraphs), but particularly scathing statement, they
Read(BRUSSELS2) The Court of Auditors has published a harsh report on European aid to Egypt. “Serious weaknesses” in control, corruption, lack of transparency, unclear projects, lack of support for civil society and lack of incentives for
Read(B2) The interim Malian president hammered home: “the problem in northern Mali is not a Tuareg problem”. Speaking to MEPs on Thursday, the day after the international conference on Mali, Dioncounda Traoré
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(BRUSSELS2) The Syrian General, Selim Idriss, Commander-in-Chief of the Free Syrian Army (SLA), who was today (6 March) in Brussels the guest of the Liberals and Democrats group in the European Parliament, had a message
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