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Notebook (02.01.2019). Confidential (PKK). Operations (Heads of Mission extension). Defense (Bundeswehr recruitment, France budget – navy drone, Belgium NATO report, Netherlands 5G and electronic warfare, United Kingdom mine clearance and Huawei). Diplomacy…

(B2) Recently published: (blog) The European forces prepare the installation in Bouar (V2) The inscription of the PKK on the illegal terrorist list, for lack of motivation The American lobbying pays. Bulgaria finally chooses the F-16 (blog) Benalla

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Notebook (08.11.2016). EULEX Kosovo (budget). EUPOL Afghanistan (liquidation). EUCAP Sahel Mali (head). CAF Defense Agenda. Türkiye (progress). Minusma (gaps). Germany (UNMISS and UNAMID). Nordic countries (military circulation). NATO (appointment). United Kingdom…

(B2) Recently published (* on B2's blog): Do we need a European army? Is there a space for European defence? (web Tv)* The global strategy is not enough, you need a white paper

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Selim YENEL, the Turkish Permanent Representative to the EU, the Turkish (Mevlüt CAVUSOGLU) and Dutch (Bert KOENDERS) Foreign Affairs Ministers at the intergovernmental conference to open the chapter (credit: CUE)
Business NewsNeighborhood enlargement

A new negotiation chapter is opening with Turkey… but

                        (B2) The European Union has decided to open chapter 33 (financial and budgetary provisions) of the accession negotiations with Turkey, on the occasion of the

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Notebook (05.04.2016). EUTM RCA (Eurocorps). Cops (calendar). Minusca/Minusma (Portugal). Mali (Von der Leyen). AMISOM (funding). United Kingdom (budget). Vlaams Belang (Islamization). Prawda (Warsaw). Nagorno Karabagh (violence). Türkiye (attack/PKK). Security summit…

(B2) Recently published: Europeans must secure their neighborhood (Jolyon Howorth) Defense research sets up an initiative group Sanctions against Libya put in place. 3 senior Libyan officials on the index

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