CSDP and NATO post-Libya: towards the rubicon?
In the wake of Libya and the American pivot to Asia, CSDP-NATO relations must be recalibrated. The buzz word for CSDP should be: integrated through the EU and empowered through […]
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An EU security strategy: an attractive narrative
in today’s ever more complex world, a European Security Strategy (ESS) is needed to preserve our European values and interest, our European way of life –and the Union as such. […]
As the EU said at the NATO Summit
The May 2012 NATO Summit in Chicago will see the first results of the new attempt to make Europeans more capable militarily. Having decided last December on projects addressing some […]
Belgian defence policy: the fight goes on
The Coalition Agreement of the Di Rupo government comes at a moment when the international context can help overcome the dilemmas of Belgian defence policy: transformation
Afghanistan’s future: foreign and local solutions for a fought-over country
In this policy brief, Alain Hanssen looks at Afghanistan’s future through different national and international lenses. (Photo credit: EU EEAS, Flickr)
Foreign policy and the euro: we have an idea
With the Euro in crisis, EU foreign policy evidently suffers for lack of money and attention. But the way the Eurozone crisis is being discussed is also fundamentally at odds […]