Defence, diplomacy, crises, powers
(B2) The Ministers of Defense of the '27', meeting in Zagreb on March 6, gave the starting signal for a new reflection at European level, called the 'strategic compass'. Neither a defense white paper nor
Read(B2) Defense ministers meet on March 4 and 5 in Zagreb, Croatia, for their semi-annual informal meeting, just before their Foreign Affairs counterparts. It should make it possible to move forward on the
Read(B2) General Claudio Graziano, President of the EU Military Committee (EUMC), asked politicians on Thursday (November 28): listen to the ideas of the military! They are the ones on the ground
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(B2) Europe must learn to think like a geopolitical power. This is the essence of the report on European strategic sovereignty produced by a European think tank This report coordinated by the think tank European Council on
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(B2) The High Representative of the EU, Federica Mogherini, will present to ministers on Monday (17 June) an assessment of the implementation of the various aspects of the EU's global strategy on
Read(B2) Four subjects are on the agenda of the Council of Foreign Ministers on Monday 17 June: Sudan, the Middle East, the EU's global strategy and the security and
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(B2 – exclusive) Antoine Bouvier has been the chief executive officer (CEO, general manager in French) of the European missile manufacturer MBDA since 2007. A leading observer of European security life, he campaigns for the implementation
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(B2) If "a year ago, many had predicted the 'inevitable' decline of the European Union", it is now clear that "the Global Strategy served as a springboard to relaunch the process
Read(B2) The Council of Foreign Ministers, Monday June 19 in Luxembourg, should be devoted, in large part, to security and defense issues, as part of the preparation for the European Council,
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(B2) Meeting in Brussels on Thursday (18 May), the Ministers of Defense of the 28 drew up a list of the tasks which remained to be accomplished and thus gave a mandate to Federica Mogherini to
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(B2) A small country bordering Russia, Estonia is not the first country that comes to mind when talking about European defence, and even less about European missions in Africa. And yet. Eastern Tallinn
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(B2) The establishment of a new impetus for European Defense has been slowly maturing to culminate, on 15 December 2016, in a set of decisions taken by the 28 Heads of State
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(B2) The conclusions adopted by the 28 ministers of the European Union on security and defense policy define a "qualitative leap" which breaks certain taboos, allowing the Defense Union
Read(B2) EU Foreign Affairs and Defense Ministers meet on Monday (14) and Tuesday (15) November for their traditional semi-annual meeting, partly joint. Previously, they will have had an informal dinner,
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(B2) “The current crisis can give the European Union the opportunity to improve its functioning. It is from this observation that the MEPs start to ask the Member States to take "ambitious decisions" to strengthen the security policy.
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(B2) On Tuesday (25 October), the College of Commissioners approved its lines of work for 2017. The Juncker Commission maintains its policy of legislative sobriety with one principle: few texts but high added value. B2 read
Read(B2) Four main topics are, for now, scheduled to be discussed at the meeting of foreign ministers on Monday (17 October) which takes place in Luxembourg from 9:15 a.m. to 17 p.m. NB: This
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(B2 – exclusive) The informal meeting of EU Defense Ministers in Bratislava had already given some content. Between French and Germans, joined by Italians and Spaniards, there is
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(B2) The report on the implementation of the Common Security and Defense Policy (CSDP) comes this year at a crucial moment: in the midst of a strategic discussion on the future of Europe, the redefinition of
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