Navo moet missie in Afghanistan herbekijken
SVEN BISCOP gelooft niet dat de Navo-missie in Afghanistan zoals ze nu loopt veel resultaat zal opleveren. Pas wanneer de missie een duidelijke strategie heeft en een haalbaar doel, is […]
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A quoi sert l’Union Européenne au 21ème siècle?
Discours donné lors de la Conférence inaugurale des cours d’été du Mouvement européen basque. (Photo credit: rockcohen, Flickr)
The Lisbon treaty and ESDP: transformation and integration
In the few years since its inception following the 1998 Franco-British Saint- Malo Summit, the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) has progressed enormously, certainly when compared with the preceding […]
Balancing defence and security efforts with a permanently structured scorecard
Two major developments are set to change defence and security landscapes in the coming decade: the Lisbon treaty will affect in a significant way the European Union’s ‘external action’ and […]
European defence in the wake of the Lisbon treaty
The finishing touches for the setting up of the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) were put, in the small hours of a Monday morning in what is today the […]
Permanent structured cooperation and the future of ESDP
The efficiency problem of Europe’s armed forces is well known: of an impressive overall number of over two million men and women in uniform in the EU-27, only a meagre […]