Defence, diplomacy, crises, powers
(B2) This is the meaning of the recommendations and findings of the 2023 report on the common foreign and security policy of the European Parliament. The last of the mandate. This ritual exercise therefore takes a more strategic turn…
Read
(B2) At a time when EDIRPA is adopted, the Franco-German couple is still struggling. Both politically and technically. The German project for a successor to the Leopard tank is a bad signal. Between Paris and Berlin, competition
Read(B2 – exclusive) The European Council meeting at the end of June will be intense. Between support for Ukraine and sanctions on Russia, future of relations with China, EU industrial policy and migration, European defense
Read(B2) Faced with a more dominant China, the President of the European Commission calls for taking the dimension of risk and defining a firmer European position. In germ, the elements of the future
Read(B2) The President of the European Council, Charles Michel, visiting China, sent messages to its leader Xi Jinping. On the need to reduce economic dependencies, open the Chinese market to
Read(B2 – exclusive) View China primarily as a competitor with only a few possible lines of entry. This is the change in strategy proposed by the EEAS to foreign ministers on Monday (17 October)
Read(B2 — exclusive) The 27 are not dropping the case to make Russia pay for its aggression against its Ukrainian neighbour. Committed to extending their aid, assistance and sanctions. But the Heads of State and
Read(B2) The visit of the head of European diplomacy Josep Borrell on Thursday (October 14) to Washington was an opportunity to finalize the various dialogues with his counterpart, Anthony Blinken The challenge of the meeting
Read(B2) The Ministers of Defense and Foreign Affairs will hold their back-to-school meetings, face-to-face, in Slovenia, at the Brdo site (near Ljubljana airport) on 2 and 3 September 2021
Read(B2) The Ministers of Foreign Affairs defended, on Monday 12 July, the interest of having a more geostrategic approach in terms of connectivity. Tired of Chinese influence in their neighborhood, the 27 now want to position themselves as
Read
(B2) The B2 team wishes you a happy new year and sends you its best wishes. We are taking advantage of this new year to test a new periodicity of the notebook, namely Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
Read(B2) The three Foreign Ministers of Germany, France and Poland met in Paris on Thursday (15.10) for a meeting which symbolizes above all the Polish will to resume discussions at Trois Ces
Read(B2) The European Council adopted on Friday (2 October) a series of recommendations aimed at strengthening European digital sovereignty. The words that upset until recently, “autonomy”, “sovereignty” and “dependencies” have become
Read(B2) From now on, the European Union will work for strategic autonomy. It involves taking a stand. And stop being guided, even stepping on it and dividing. Charles Michel, President of the European Council drove the point home
Read(B2) EU foreign ministers meet again on Friday (29 May) for a session largely devoted to Asia (China, Afghanistan) This succession of meetings of the Council of Ministers at intervals
Read
(B2 in Paris) Emmanuel Macron met with French diplomats on the occasion of the opening of the traditional Conference of Ambassadors and Ambassadors, this Tuesday, August 27. Militant for a France "power of balance", which
Read(B2 – exclusive) The European Union and China will cooperate on a program aimed at combating the diversion of arms and ammunition in Africa. EU Ambassadors (Coreper 2) approved on Tuesday (July 16)
Read
(B2) The summit between the European Union and China could have been a failure, as in 2017. Finally, after many adjustments, and negotiations until the last minute, Beijing and Brussels are otherwise displaying a common front,
Read
(B2) The Foreign Affairs Council held on Monday 18 March was relatively 'light'. No political conclusions were adopted by the ministers. The only real debate took place around China Macedonia in
Read