Defence, diplomacy, crises, powers
(B2) The failure of the inspection of a Turkish merchant ship by a German frigate acting within the framework of Operation Irini puts the Turkish question at the center of the European game… © Confidential © UE-ACP. Post-Cotonou. A "
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(B2) Will the American decision to withdraw a few thousand soldiers from Afghanistan and Iraq be the signal for the Europeans to re-engage in these countries, or a similar decision? … We lean towards this
Read(B2) Member States must invest more, more ambitiously and more dynamically, in permanent structured cooperation. This is the main message of the European Parliament The report, written by Polish MEP Radosław Sikorski (EPP/Platform
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(B2) Given the intensity of the repression in Belarus, the Europeans plan to further increase the sanctions measures against officials of the government of A. Lukashenko © Confidential © On the COPS agenda. Committee ambassadors
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(B2) This Friday, the Ministers of the Interior of the 27 meet around a subject which goes back to the top of European priorities: the fight against terrorism. France and Austria particularly affected lately
Read(B2 – exclusive) Insufficient progress in PESCO, weak operational will, fragmentation and capability gaps… the European defense record is not rosy. Many initiatives, few results. The defense ministers of
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(B2) Russia has carried out a maneuver of which only it has the secret. She left her American and French partners on the sidelines to negotiate a ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh between the enemy brothers of the
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(B2) The resignation of the President of Kosovo Hashim Thaci and his imprisonment in The Hague along with several other former leaders of the KLA as the searches (still in progress) in Kosovo can be
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(B2) The participation of third countries in Permanent Structured Cooperation obeys a series of precisely defined rules and principles. A process that must remain exceptional, on a case-by-case basis, for projects
Read(B2) The work of parliamentarians is based on traditional annual reports – CSDP, CFSP, arms export – and more original initiatives, such as this reflection on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on foreign policy
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(B2) Two stabbing attacks hit France again, in a church in Nice (South) and in a French consulate in Saudi Arabia, Thursday (29.10). A singular return, fifteen days after that of
Read(B2) The Europeans ended up agreeing on a delicate subject: the association of third countries to permanent structured cooperation. The Coreper II ambassadors gave the go-ahead on Wednesday (28.10).
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(B2) Far from calming down, the atmosphere is getting heavier between Turkey and France, and therefore with the European Union. The question could rebound at the European summit on October 29. The first mailing this morning contained a few errors.
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(B2) The awarding of the Sakharov Prize to the Belarusian opposition by the European Parliament once again demonstrates the will of Europeans not to recognize Lukashenko's power. A point on which there is consensus, whatever
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(B2) Five years after the Iranian nuclear deal, lifting the arms embargo on Iran is a risky step in a troubled region © Confidential © FEDef. The main groups
Read(B2) In its defence, Bulgaria thinks, acts and… buys American. Defense Minister Krassimir Karakatchanov's visit to Washington for several days bears this out, and recent purchase decisions prove it. The commitment in the
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(B2) One by one, all the European Commissioners announce either having tested positive for Covid-19 or being in contact with a tested person. The European 'machine' risks a new slowdown as at the start of the epidemic
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(B2) The positive coronavirus test of a security officer of Charles Michel, the President of the European Council, forces the postponement to October 1 and 2 of the European Council scheduled for this weekend © Confidential
Read(B2) The monitoring of foreign investments cannot be limited to the list adopted in 2019. Certain mechanisms which did not appear on it must be added, such as the GovSatCom project, research projects in the field of
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