Hundreds of European “foreign fighters” are still being held by Kurdish authorities, in Syria. Their fate remains uncertain, as European governments are unwilling to repatriate their citizens. Meanwhile, security and […]
Herman Van Rompuy, former President of the European Council, has been credited with the idea according to which the Commission under Ursula von der Leyen has three key tasks facing […]
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Enhancing the employability of Europe’s armies turns on the creation of permanent multinational force packages, with national brigades serving as the building blocks. Read this paper on Taylor & Francis: […]
The debate about the division of labor between the European Union (EU) and NATO has been ongoing ever since the former was created in 1993. Much more sensitive than the […]
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To strengthen multilateralism in their own neighbourhood, Germany and the EU should pursue connectivity strategies with their Eastern and Southern neighbours. These could create the links between the EU’s neighbours […]
Since the attacks the 11th of September 2001 in the US, there has been a strong increase in security force assistance (SFA) to fragile states with the aim of professionalising […]
In the run up to the NATO Brussels Summit, Egmont is teaming up with the Center for Strategic and International Studies to shed light on one of the most difficult […]
NATO and the EU are often mentioned together. Officially, cooperation is said to be fine and even improving, covering more and more dimensions. Yet for decades now questions are also […]
«Si quelques années avant la guerre, des militants informés des choses internationales, pénétrés des idées fondamentales du marxisme, s’étaient posé la question de savoir quelle serait la première capitale où […]
Our concerns about the foreign policy of the US, the ambition of China, and the strategy of Russia demonstrate that History certainly has not come to an end. We are […]