by Admiral (ret) Alain Coldefy, President, Societé des Membres de la Légion d’Honneur (SMLH), Paris War made a tragic return to continental Europe when Russia invaded neighbouring Ukraine in early 2022 in an attempt to terrorise the entire country. It is a land war, partly air-land but relatively little naval, even if the French daily…
by Charlina Vitcheva, Director-General, DG Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (DG MARE), European Commission, Brussels The new EU Maritime Security Strategy (EUMSS)1 comes at a time of increasing geopolitical strife and rapid technological developments, answering a broad range of security challenges in the global maritime domain. The EU Member States combined have the largest Exclusive Economic…
by Gerhard Arnold, Theologian and Publisher, Middle East correspondent for this magazine, Würzburg On 10 March 2023, senior government officials of Iran and Saudi Arabia agreed in Beijing, after mediation by Chinese leadership, to resume their diplomatic and economic relations. On 6 April, the foreign ministers of both states met for further talks, also in…
by Nannette Cazaubon, Paris Having reported several times on the “Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Risk Mitigation Centres of Excellence” (CBRN CoE) initiative in our magazine, we are continuing to follow this success story, launched by the European Union (EU) in 2010. Aimed at fostering national and regional cooperation in the face of CBRN risks…
by Josep Borrell Fontelles, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice President of the European Commission (HR/VP), Brussels It is time build the European Union (EU) into a real security provider. In response to a radically changing security environment, we are taking many steps to defend the security of our citizens and our…
by Peter Tamm, Publisher, Hamburg, and Hartmut Bühl, Editor-in-Chief, Paris This 48th edition marks a new beginning for “The European – Security and Defence Union” magazine! Starting with this issue, Peter Tamm, owner of Tamm Media Group, Hamburg, via its publishing house, Mittler Report Verlag GmbH, Bonn, takes over the magazine’s ownership from the previous…
by Dr Hans Christoph Atzpodien, Managing Director of Bundesverband Deutscher Sicherheits- und Verteidigungsindustrie (BDSV), and Lucas Hirsch, Sustainability Analyst at BDSV, Berlin It was in Paris in 2015 when 196 nations approved a joint commitment (Paris Agreement) to limit global warming to 1.5C and to reach carbon neutrality in the second half of this century…
by Manuel de la Cámara Hermoso, EuroDefense-Spain, Madrid In 1995, the European Union (EU) launched the so-called “Barcelona process”, a comprehensive plan whose objective was to extend the area of stability, prosperity, and development to its southern neighbourhood. In 2004, the Mediterranean partners were included in the “European Neighbourhood Policy” (ENP), which included both the…
Interview with Dr Jan Joel Andersson, Senior Analyst, European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS), Paris The European: Mr Andersson, as a Senior Analyst at the European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) in Paris, you have been working on the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) over many years and you have analysed the…
A report by Hartmut Bühl, Paris Eager to know how the European Union Emergency Response Coordination Centre (ERCC) functions, I was very glad to be invited by Antoine Lemasson, who heads up the ERCC, for a walk through the centre. Visiting, amongst others, the operations and the crisis room, I learned operational details and how…