by Jørgen Bo Leimand, Naestved The 19th NATO Life Cycle Management Conference (LCM) took place in Brussels on 23-24 January 2024. The conference was attended by more than hundred delegates coming from more than eighteen nations. When you see those figures, you might wonder how can they do this? The LCM community is based on…
Interview with Denis Verret, former Senior Vice-President of EADS (now Airbus) and member of the Council of EuroDéfense-France, Paris, and Colonel (ret.) Ralph Thiele, Managing Director StratByrd Consulting and President of EuroDéfense-Germany, Berlin The European: Gentlemen, in November 2023 you published a joint article in the French newspaper La Tribune in which you wrote that…
by Hartmut Bühl, Paris It is time to face up to the fact that arrangements that have governed European security and defence policy for decades – with the US as the “security provider” guaranteeing nuclear protection and the Europeans as “security consumers” – no longer work. The reflex of standing up to the Americans is…
Interview with Jiří Šedivý, Chief Executive of the European Defence Agency (EDA), Brussels Hartmut Bühl: Mr Šedivý, EU governance is complex, especially when it comes to security and defence. Is there a shared understanding in the European Union (EU) institutions of the strategic priorities for a European security and defence architecture? Jiří Šedivý: Yes, there…
by Philippe Geffroy, PPRD Med Team Leader/ISTC Senior Programme Manager, mand Jean Muylaert, PPRD Med Deputy Team Leader/ISTC Expert for new technologies, Astana PPRD Med (Prevention, Preparedness, Response to natural & man-made Disasters in the Southern & Eastern Mediterranean) is a European Commission (DG ECHO) led three-year programme that responds to the tailored needs and…
by Nannette Cazaubon, Paris While farmers in several European countries express their anger, some because of the Green Deal environmental standards to which they are subjected, others on the contrary claiming support for more sustainable agriculture, the 16th Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA) took place on 17-20 January 2024 in Berlin. The event…
by Babatunde Anthony Ojei, Country Director for Nigeria, International Rescue Committee, Abuja While climate change may seem like a distant concern for many around the globe, it is a pressing reality for the communities served by the International Rescue Committee (IRC). The three global challenges of climate change, extreme poverty, and conflict are converging and…
by Marcus D. King, Professor of the Practice in Environment and International Affairs, Georgetown University, Washington D.C. Water stress is a growing problem in many parts of the world. Approximately two billion people worldwide lack access to safe drinking water, and nearly half of the world’s population experiences severe water scarcity for at least one…
by Nannette Cazaubon, Paris Climate change matters for our security, and therefore it matters to NATO”, Jens Stoltenberg, NATO Secretary General, said at the Dubai climate conference COP28 in December 2023. Participating in a high-level leaders’ event on climate security organised by the COP28 Presidency and the Munich Security Conference (MSC), he emphasised that “climate…
by Dr Johannes Bühl, Professor, Harz University, Wernigerode Firefighting plane in the area of Ancient Olympia, Peloponnese, Greece, 2021 Recently, notable and impactful weather events have brought the topic of weather and climate extremes back to our attention. But what’s behind them? Why are we apparently seeing more extreme weather? Is it only an observational…