Defence, diplomacy, crises, powers
(B2) The summit meeting which starts today will be decisive for the months and years to come. Defense, Ukraine, enlargement… the 27 leaders must decide on eminently strategic subjects. In the news: At the Council
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(B2) The Belgian presidency will have to work extra hard to complete as many files as possible by April 2024 and the end of the current legislature and before Hungary takes over in July.
Read(B2) Cramped between complex negotiations on the enlargement and revision of the multiannual financial framework and tense discussions on the situation in the Middle East, security and defense were all the more easily
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(B2) The year 2023 continues to be marked by the Russian war in Ukraine as well as by the new definition of European policy, derived from the strategic compass. To which is added the recent conflict between Israel and
Read(B2 – exclusive) The subject of defense and security was put on the agenda of the European Council of December 14 and 15. A way to push the fires and accelerate the work in progress.
Read(B2) Meeting in Granada on Friday (October 6), the 27 developed their strategic agenda for future years (2024-2029). Focused on one principle: do more. Defense and security issues coming first
Read(B2) The 27 Heads of State or Government meeting in Brussels approved without ambiguity, Thursday (June 29), a few lines on security and defence. Conclusions prepared well in advance. The main focus on
Read(B2) The rapid deployment capability in the future must benefit from targeted and supervised means so as not to fall back into the traps of battlegroups, argues the European Parliament, in a report adopted on Wednesday (19 April)
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(B2) The father of the Compass had several opportunities this week to draw up a more personal assessment. An exercise that is both self-critical – rather satisfying -, educational and forward-looking. The High Representative of the EU has
Read(B2 – exclusive) The document which will be submitted to the EU's defense and foreign affairs ministers, meeting in jumbo formation on Monday (March 20), is intended to be playful. But behind a balance sheet, indeed
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(B2) Relations are deteriorating between the European Union and Israel. In the form of arm wrestling. A subject to follow because it could seize up the European will to be more present in the Middle East. On the side of
Read(B2) The war in Ukraine has an impact even on neutral Switzerland, which is reviewing its security policy. With the watchword of cooperating more with the two European security organisations: the Union
Read(B2) The strategic compass enters the loop of reports on the agenda of parliamentary committees. Alongside the traditional annual reports on the CSDP and the CFSP, but with some novelties in the rapporteurs. And an
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(B2) Relations with Africa remain difficult. The High Representative clearly recognizes this in a post on his blog after the G20. The subject returns to the magnifying glass of the news on the front of the news
Read(B2 — exclusive) The Europeans wanted in the strategic compass to set themselves a series of deadlines. The roadmap foresees around 80 measures up to 2025. But a good part of the actions (a
Read(B2) We have never talked so much about defense at European level. And the topics are important. But, paradoxically enough, this six-monthly meeting of EU Defense Ministers will be one of the most
Read(B2) What is the use of the document called Strategic Compass, adopted by the European Council at the end of March? What will remain of it in a few months or three years from now? Isn't the crisis rather the engine of
Read(B2 — exclusive) Should a common objective for military spending be set at European Union level? If so, what should it look like? What about the stability pact? In a deaf way, but
Read(B2) Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands have just signed a joint declaration on the implementation of the strategic compass. A statement in the form of an open forum by the three Ministers of
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