Defence, diplomacy, crises, powers
(B2) Rear Admiral Xavier Larreur de Farcy de Pontfarcy handed over, on Thursday (July 4), the baton of the deputy command of the EU anti-piracy operation (Eunavfor ATALANTA) to his Italian counterpart, the counter- Admiral Giovanni Battista Piegaja.
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(B2 – exclusive) After a year and a half in Bangui, the Portuguese Brigadier General Hermínio Teodoro Maio will hand over, from July 8, the command of the EU mission of
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(B2 – exclusive) Italian Rear Admiral Ettore Socci succeeds his compatriot Stefano Turchetto from this Wednesday (June 12) as Commander of the European Force in the Mediterranean (EUNAVFOR Med / Sophia). The ambassadors
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(B2) Claire Raulin will be, from August 1st, the new permanent representative of France to the COPS, the political and security committee. She replaces Nicolas Suran, at the end of his cycle of three
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(B2 – exclusive) The race for the top leader of the European institutions is on. This is also the time to start designing the future Commission. Each capital tries to place its pawns… Will the current commissioners be
Read(B2) The informal dinner of the 28 Heads of State and Government ended on Tuesday (May 28) without firing a shot on a unanimous report. The President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, has been mandated to seek
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(B2) The High Representative of the EU, Federica Mogherini, announced this Tuesday (28 May) the appointment of diplomat and economist Enrique Iglesias special adviser for Venezuela. A diplomatic effort to speed up the process of
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(B2) It is a Belgian general who should take over from French general Daniel Grammatico in the 'operations' directorate of the European Union general staff. This as of September 1 Bart Laurent is a profile
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(B2 – exclusive) A new chief will be appointed to the EU Internal Security Forces Advisory Mission based in Kyiv (EUAM Ukraine): Finn Antti Hartikainen EU Ambassadors
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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) The traditional rotation of European Union ambassadors started quite late this year with the announcement of 24 appointments Africa Botswana: Jan SADEK (Sweden) A specialist in East Africa Jan Sadek has
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(B2) Since the return of Fernando Gentilini to the seat of the EEAS, the European Union no longer has a special representative for the Middle East (1). This gap should soon be filled Political and Security Committee (PSC)
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(B2) The EU anti-piracy force (EUNAVFOR Atalanta) deployed in the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden will have, from August 6, 2018, a new commander: Rear Admiral Alfonso Pérez de Nanclares y Perez
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(B2 – exclusive) Dane Peter Sørensen, currently head of the EU delegation to the United Nations in Geneva, could be appointed to head the Political and Security Committee (PSC), to succeed
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(B2 – exclusive) As indicated in our Notebook (30.04.2018), Belgian police officer Frank Van Der Mueren was indeed appointed, on Wednesday (2 May), head of the European mission EUCAP Sahel Niger (mission to strengthen
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(B2 in Strasbourg) After negotiating for several days, the MEPs of the ferocious Cocobu (budgetary control committee) followed by the plenary of the Parliament finally approved a resolution with a new amendment of
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(B2) The affair of the appointment of the Secretary General of the European Commission is endless. The explanations of Commissioner Oettinger on Tuesday (March 27), in Parliament's Budget Control Committee (Cocobu) did not have the good fortune to appease
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(B2) The High Representative of the EU announced this Wednesday (28 March) at the end of the afternoon, some appointments within the European External Action Service. Few new names, but mostly transfers of
Read(B2) General Aleš Opata will be the next Chief of Staff of the Czech Army from May 1. The decision will have to be approved next week by the government, announced the Minister of
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