On February 2, Russia has announced it is suspending participation in the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty - one day after the US declared it would pull out of the agreement unless Moscow complies with its terms within 180 days. Where is Europe in this
On January 8, the European commission announced that it agreed to examine the joint request by France and Germany for the acquisition of Chantiers de l'Atlantique (previsouly called “STX France”) by the Italian group Fincantieri. The Commission considers that the transaction could harm competition at
On December 19th, US president Donald Trump made a move that took almost everybody, including members of his own administration, off guard. In a series of tweets, he ordered a full, rapid withdrawal of over 2,000 US troops from Syria. Trump’s announcement upended a central
100 years after the First World War and nearly 70 years after NATO’s birth, the world, and Europe in particular, are facing new threats (cyber, drones, nuclear), in geopolitically challenging situations. Therefore, security and defence policies are becoming a top priority for countries.
The Council for Foreign Affairs (Nov 19th) approved 17 new projects within the PESCO Framework. What is PESCO ? What are the projects? What about third States’ participation ?
On 13th November, the EU Trade Commissioner Cecila Malmström delivered a speech in Washington on global common challenges with the United States in the context of investigations and safeguard measures on EU steel imports. The European Commissioner stressed the need to recast the World Trade
Time passing, and more and more little shiny details come to the surface about the biased procedure by which the tender was awarded to Lockheed Martin for the new Belgian fighter jets. Here is a good example given by the Brussels Times : Europe’s defence policy, long overshadowed
It was announced in the past ten days that the German shipbuilder TKMS, a member of the ThyssenKrupp group, had signed a major contract with Egypt for the sale of 4 (+2) MEKO 200 class frigates. The announcement came from the TKMS CEO[1], simultaneously declaring
Last week, on a French radio station, French President Emmanuel Macron spoke about the need to create a "real European army" to handle the Russian threat and to emancipate Europe from its dependence on the US.
At a time when the UK is leaving the UE and the U.S.A threatening to loosen, if not untie, the NATO links on the ground of poor financing by the European members, Defence Chronicles found it appropriate to launch a readers think tank on the identification
