Defence, diplomacy, crises, powers
(B2) New technologies and new materials, with their military applications, will revolutionize defense. Their gradual integration is the major challenge for the years to come. This is the observation that emerges from the
Read(B2) The Bundestag approved on Wednesday (June 23) a new phase of development of the air combat system of the future. But only for phase 1B. And he framed it with several conditions The project went on to
Read(B2) For Éric Trappier, the president of the association representing aerospace and defense companies (ASD), “we must invest in the European defense industry”, an essential guarantee of the much-sought-after strategic autonomy.
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(B2 – exclusive) The High Representative of the EU has prepared the recommendation to launch the formal procedure for the adoption of the third wave of Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) projects Greater participation
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(B2 at Eurosatory) To innovate, everyone points out that it is difficult to coordinate efforts between large national agencies, armies, large and small companies. Difficulties that can increase when it is necessary to discuss
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(B2 in the European Parliament) The MEPs of the ITRE committee (industry, research) approved this Wednesday (21 February), the legislative project to establish an industrial development program for defense (EDIDP), with a large majority
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(B2) Defense spending rose very sharply in 2016 and 2015. But Europeans are far from having recovered all the faculties they lost during the economic crisis. The rise remains too timid to
Read(B2) Recently published: The Malian affair forces Jeanine Hennis to resign. Klaas Dijkhoff replaces her European Public Prosecutor's Office: the Arlesian comes out of the shadows! The European Parliament approves the Daughter's Assets project
Read(B2) To remedy the fragmentation of the defense research market, the European institutions wanted to introduce an incentive for cooperation between Member States, to "encourage cooperation between
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(B2) Faced with certain foreign investments, which could threaten industrial autonomy as a policy of the European Union, the European Commission has decided to act. Commissioners Jyrki Katainen and Cecilia Malmström presented to the press,
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(B2) The United Kingdom had already made this known, B2 echoed this on several occasions (1). It is now official. London offers the European Union "a deep security partnership" after Brexit. In
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(B2) Meeting at the Elysée Palace in Paris this Thursday (July 13), French and German leaders, Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron, made a substantial announcement: "to develop an air combat system
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(B2) The defense action plan presented by the European Commission on Wednesday 30 November (read: Funds for defence, key elements of the European Commission's action plan) was generally well
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(B2) The Council of the EU approved the recast of the 2011 decision defining the work of the European Defense Agency. Stated objective: "to improve the clarity of the legal text" founding the agency,
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(BRUSSELS2) Projects carried out at European level within the European Defense Agency (EDA) could now benefit from a VAT exemption. Member States seem to be more or less in agreement on this point. So far,
ReadSpending more and spending better on defence, the 28 have updated their commitment to devote part of their budget to the defense effort. They give themselves 10 years to straighten out the
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(BRUSSELS2) The French Defense Minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, presented at the ACT seminar – the Allied Command for the transformation of NATO – which opened in Paris on April 8, the
Read(BRUSSELS2) In rather dense conclusions, the last European summit in December endorsed an interesting provision decided by the Ministers of Defense in November: the establishment of an incentive
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