The Strategic Compass: Entering the Fray
The Strategic Compass for the EU’s security and defence policy, to be adopted in 2022, must generate immediate action. The best way of ensuring that is to prepare new capability […]
The Strategic Compass for the EU’s security and defence policy, to be adopted in 2022, must generate immediate action. The best way of ensuring that is to prepare new capability […]
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The military intervention in Afghanistan was a near complete success. Or it would have been, had the US pulled out as soon as it was satisfied that its initial objective […]
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On the eve of the National Day, Sven Biscop reflects on Belgian Defence: budget, capabilities, and above all, people. This article was also published in De Morgen. (Photo credit: […]
The evolving security environment will demand more involvement and commitment from Belgian Defence, for which it is not yet sufficiently prepared. There is a need to develop a more proactive […]
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A band of hardliners with a shopping list: that is how we came across after the debate in the media and in the defence committee of the Belgian Federal Parliament […]
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Before his trip to Europe, President Biden spoke of its purpose as “rallying the democracies”. But international politics is not just a clash between the democrats and the dictators. Indeed, […]
High Level Seminar, –Speech of Karel De Gucht: Minister of Foreign Affairs. –Speech of Nobuyasu Abe, Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs, United Nations. (Photo credit: 5-2, Flickr)
Conference with Dr. Nabeel Sha’ath, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Palestinian National Authority (Photo credit: Irish Defence Forces, Flickr)
Colloquium. Programme. (Photo credit: LeonArts.at, Flickr)
Conference with James D. Wolfensohn, President of the World Bank – Speech (Photo credit: Carbon NYC, Flickr)