State of defence in Europe: state of emergency?
When a doctor calls for a thorough examination of the state of a patient’s health, he hopes that everything will turn out to be alright, but it really means that […]
When a doctor calls for a thorough examination of the state of a patient’s health, he hopes that everything will turn out to be alright, but it really means that […]
in DGAPanalyse 10, Oktober 2013. (Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)
The European Commission has now released its 2013 Communication on defence-industrial policy. But does the latest set of policy ideas offer European defence-industrial cooperation any new impetus? This Brief argues […]
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In an age of major power shifts, which we know from history always to be particularly dangerous, different scenarios are possible; the only promising one is that of more and […]
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The reigning mood in Europe certainly appeared to be ‘post-interventionist’. With the end of a long drawn-out and inconclusive deployment to Afghanistan finally in sight and with defense budgets under […]
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C’est sur la base d’intérêts identifiés et de responsabilités assumées que les Européens peuvent imaginer leur action militaire collective pour sécuriser leur voisinage, protéger leurs intérêts, notamment maritimes, et participer […]
‘Europa moet zijn lot echt in eigen handen nemen. De tijden dat we volledig konden vertrouwen op anderen zijn voor een stuk voorbij.’ Deze opmerkelijke uitspraak van Angela […]
Since the beginning of 2015, a series of destabilizing events, from terrorism to a migration crisis without precedent, have shaken Europeans even in their daily lives. We are left with […]
Chair: Rik Coolsaet Speaker: Peter Mandaville
International politics is not about charity, but about the pursuit of interests. That seems self-evident, but to the European Union it wasn’t. For a long time the EU closed its […]