Defence, diplomacy, crises, powers
(B2 – exclusive) The two commissions ITRE (Industry) and SEDE (Defence) will be co-responsible for the joint examination of the common acquisition fund for military equipment. The division of powers has just been decided this Thursday (December 8) by
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(B2) Unblocking the European Peace Facility. The answer becomes urgent. But the 27 are struggling to get along. In the spotlight: the EUMAM Ukraine mission is operational © Operational mission. The initial operational capability
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(B2) The team in charge of the parliamentary scrutiny for the ITRE Committee of the Instrument to Strengthen the European Defense Industry through Joint Acquisitions (EDIRPA) combines experience and new blood. In a certain continuity
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(B2) Three months after its proposal, the EDIRPA, this new European defense fund dedicated to joint acquisitions, is still under construction. The Board seeks itself through meetings at the rate of one per week.
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(B2 – exclusive) The Security and Defense Sub-Committee (SEDE) wants to be associated with the examination of the new instrument for common arms markets (EDIRPA). Arguing for its natural legitimacy on defense issues. The Commission
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(B2) The Great Lakes region of Africa is once again shaken by a conflict that threatens to become open between DR Congo and Rwanda. European diplomacy, African mediation mobilize to appease
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(B2) The European Parliament renews the bureau of its 20 committees and three permanent sub-committees for the second half of the mandate (2022-2024). No major change to note at their head. The compositions move to
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(B2) Diplomacy is sometimes made up of small steps. Some go unnoticed in the media brouhaha. Others consciously seek to remain discreet. This could be the case of the one made in the direction of Syria from
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(B2) The United States cannot build allied armies. The Afghan experience is one of the latest failures, denounces an American researcher. The biases it evokes are not without resonance on other missions, civilian
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(B2) Iraq and Libya, two unstable areas around Europe. Two countries, where the head of European diplomacy has just visited. With proposals for cooperation in the key. Objective: to support
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(B2) If the first coup in Mali had been welcomed with a certain placidity, even a certain relief, this second putsch in less than a year is more worrying, especially on the French side. The hypothesis of a connection between
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(B2) Russian troops are increasing on Ukraine's borders and ceasefire violations follow one another in the east of the country. Between provoking the kyiv government, testing the American reaction of the newly elected Joe Biden,
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(B2) There is indeed a boss in the Atlantic Alliance. And he's in Washington. But the Allies are 'listened to' and pampered. The arrival in Brussels of two American ministers for a special meeting on Wednesday
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(B2) Over the past twenty years, Bulgarian journalist Elena Yoncheva has covered her share of conflicts. Elected MEP in May 2019, she is now learning the slowness of things, without losing her convictions, determined to
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(B2) Faced with the deteriorating security situation, is the mandate of the EU training mission in the Central African Republic appropriate? Is the use of forces trained by the EUTM adequate? What should be
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(B2) Largely devoted to the Covid-19 crisis (vaccination and border closures) and to the Health Union, the European summit on Thursday and Friday will also address the theme of defense
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(B2) The assassination of one of the fathers of Iran's nuclear program is reigniting tensions, as the Biden presidency opens a return to pre-Trump times in relations with Iran © Confidential © FEDef. Waiting
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(B2) The confirmation that the Russian opponent, Alexei Navalny, was indeed poisoned with a product similar to that used in the assassination attempt on Sergei Skripal in London in 2018 could mean a new revival
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(B2) The Coreper II meetings restart this Wednesday with on the menu the preparation of the EU-Ukraine summit scheduled for 1 October and a progress report on the negotiation of the details of the recovery plan and
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