Defence, diplomacy, crises, powers
(B2) Recently published: The mandate of EUPOL Copps and EUBAM Rafah extended by one year * N°39. NATO's anti-missile shield The pessimistic Quartet on a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict * Brexit backwards
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(B2) A CSDP mission or operation is decided at the end of a political and military process. But the decision to deploy a CSDP mission obeys several conditions, official
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(B2) Faced with Brexit, the French and German foreign ministers have prepared a response for a stronger Europe. A text of about ten pages of proposals was thus designed, in Paris
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(B2) For European defense policy, the CSDP, paradoxically Brexit is otherwise “good news”. Some of the subjects "blocked" so far by the British will be able to be put back on the
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(B2) On Monday 20 June, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs gave the Diplomatic Service a mandate to study the regionalization of CSDP missions in the Sahel. This "as soon as possible". Several options have already been mentioned. Details…
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(B2) Planning for an operation/mission traditionally has three objectives: to prepare the options, to consider all the alternatives and to conduct the final plans. The options. Any CSDP operation/mission, civilian or military, starts
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(B2 – exclusive) The reform of crisis management structures begun at the end of 2013 — and never finished — is reappearing. Very discreetly, because it is a question of not causing “trouble” just before the referendum
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(B2) Civilian CSDP missions are largely financed from the Community budget. But they only represent a limited part of this budget (1‰). They have notably increased since the beginning of the
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(B2) The European Union is preparing to set up a new CSDP mission in Libya. Taking over part of the missions of EUBAM Libya, this mission should be transformed into a mission
Read(B2) The European diplomatic service has just successively launched several calls for recruitment for 5 CSDP civilian missions in Libya, Ukraine, Palestine and the Sahel. The EUBAM Libya mission completes its team
Read(B2) The functioning of civilian CSDP missions is not always as optimal as it seems. B2 was able to observe this during conversations and informal meetings with the various European officials. We
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(B2) Parliament approved the 2014 budget for the European Diplomatic Service (EEAS). In this report adopted on Thursday 28 April, the European Parliament is satisfied with the management of the budget (518 million
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(B2) Since the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon, a distinction is made between operations (with an executive mandate) and missions (with a non-executive mandate), a change in terminology compared to the choice that has prevailed for the
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(B2) Anna Fotyga chairs the Defense sub-committee of the European Parliament. Member of the PiS, the Law & Justice party, and of the ECR group (Conservatives and Reformers) with the British Tories. She emphasizes, for B2, how unity
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(B2 in Luxembourg) “It is more urgent than ever to take action to (…) strengthen the military and civilian security sector” of partner countries. This is the main message conveyed by nine States
Read(B2) The European Police Support Mission in Palestine (EUPOL COPPS) should be extended for an additional year from 30 June 2016. Admittedly, the political decision has not yet been officially taken, and
Read(B2) We must “mobilise the instruments of the European Union” to deal with hybrid threats. This is the main message on which the Ministers of Defense should "insist" on Tuesday, April 19,
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(B2) Foreign Ministers approved on Monday (18 April) the creation of a new tool for the management of CSDP missions, the Mission Support Instrument (ISM) (or “platform Support
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(B2) On the eve of the meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Defense of the 28, the Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi transmitted a pact for immigration (Migration compact). Using the same term
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