A Sight on European Defence

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UK, LibDem and Conservatives: the impossible agreement on European Defence.

May 14, 2010

After the coalition agreement signed by both Conservatives and Liberal Democrats on 11th May, some analysts casted a shadow on the solidity of the new British government. I will now just have a look on their respective programs regarding European Defence. Just to have an idea if this process could develop despite the new government.… » read more

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Defence Policy, English, European Defence, Security, United Kingdom

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The limited but realistic ambitions of Spanish presidency of the Union.

May 9, 2010

Recently I have run my eye over the program of the Spanish presidency. The program is available on different languages on presidency’s website (here). The Spanish ambition in that field, during those six months is the following one: realize a qualitative jump in promoting more efficient and flexible EU battle groups, consolidating the association between… » read more

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Defence Policy, English, European Defence

It’s a long way to an EU operational headquarters

May 5, 2010

The main reference of this post will be fact sheet published by the Real Instituto Elcano (here), which has published on 23 March 2010 a paper written by Luis Simon, dealing with the EU operational headquarters. The paper can be found in Spanish on the Institute website. I really liked reading it, as it gives… » read more

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Armed Forces, Defence Policy, English, European Defence

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A Sight on European Defence

Having been involved in the construction of a European Defence at working level for a couple of years, I would like to go on, looking at its changes and progress through the prism of the various reports and press articles available on the web.


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