Defence, diplomacy, crises, powers
(B2) Arriving at the European Parliament in 1999, Michael Gahler is today the reference for everything affecting the European defense industry. He defines himself as being “a bit like the father of Plan
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(B2) The draft report, written by Esteban González Pons and Michael Gahler (PPE), which should be adopted at the next plenary, calls for real changes, advocating providing the CSDP with real resources,
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(B2) Make the European Defense Agency (EDA) and Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) real structures of the European Union, in the same way as the European Diplomatic Service (EEAS), and therefore, provide them with
Read(B2) Recently published: The four evolution paths for battlegroups (Grammatico) The training mission of the Somali army "EUTM Somalia" The EU wants to reinforce the means in Libya and increase the aid to the Libyan coast guard The operation
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(B2) Between the idea of having a determined vanguard nucleus — which was all the same the initial objective of Permanent Structured Cooperation (PSC) — and the need to take into account the will of most
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(B2 – exclusive) Delivered with forceps, the conclusions that should be approved by EU ministers (Foreign Affairs / Defence) on security and defense policy must define — according to what we
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(B2) The Finnish Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Timo Soini, and of Defence, Jussi Niinistö, are expected at the EU ministerial meeting on November 14 to defend a certain ambition for foreign and
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(B2) “The current crisis can give the European Union the opportunity to improve its functioning. It is from this observation that the MEPs start to ask the Member States to take "ambitious decisions" to strengthen the security policy.
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(B2 – exclusive) The informal meeting of EU Defense Ministers in Bratislava had already given some content. Between French and Germans, joined by Italians and Spaniards, there is
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(B2, in Bratislava) After the Franco-German couple, Italy put on the table its own 'non paper' entitled “For a stronger European defence: the Italian vision”. A paper that is presented
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(B2) On the eve of the informal meeting of Defense Ministers in Bratislava, Jorge Domecq, the Director of the European Defense Agency, takes stock of the various projects underway, in particular the
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(B2 in Strasbourg) Jean-Claude Juncker wanted to make Europe political. Thing promised, thing due. In his State of the Union address to the European Parliament, the President of the European Commission wanted to illustrate this
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(B2) A few days before the Bratislava summit at 27, Paris and Berlin draw up their defense proposals in a joint paper. Written by the two French Ministers of Defense (Jean-Yves Le
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(B2) Noting that "the development of security and defense capabilities provided for by the Treaties has not yet taken place", the European Parliament, in a draft report, prepares its proposals for making a European Union of
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(B2) In Bratislava, before the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and parliamentarians, in Brussels, before the heads of EU delegations, Federica Mogherini hammered home the same message: we now need an "impetus
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(B2) The German Defense Minister, Ursula Von der Leyen, presented this Wednesday (13 July), the result of several months of work, the White Paper defining the "German security policy and
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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) Guest of the Security and Defense Sub-Committee on Thursday 16 June, the former High Representative of the EU, Javier Solana, painted an uncompromising portrait of European defense policy. The first High Representative
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(B2) The main European Christian Democratic parties, gathered within the European People's Party (EPP), must adopt in Madrid, during their congress, on 21 and 22 October, a document advocating a strengthening of the
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