European Defence projects – 34 PESCO projects selected in 2018
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 ?
The EU’s vision to recast the World Trade Organisation
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
Belgium: the F-35 tips and tricks
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
European naval jewels: the German contribution
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
European army: Not a bad idea after all?
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.
European Navies: Keep the jewels onboard!
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
Senior appointments in the EU External Action Service (EEAS)
Last September, Federica Mogherini, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission, announced major senior appointments in the European Union External Action Service (EEAS).
A complicated implementation of the Sochi agreement for Turkey
On Monday 17th September, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan have agreed to forge a demilitarized zone between rebels and Syrian government forces in Syria's Idlib region but the implementation is complicated.
The world Space force race – towards a real “star wars” ?
As arms sales are increasing around the world to face rising threats, space may soon become a land of wars, as the world space force race seems to speed up since the beginning of the year.
Navantia: from Saudi Arabia with love
Spain & Saudi Arabia: first, a story of kings and money The recent Saudi contract of Navantia did not fall from the sky: it is only part of a larger story featuring the Spanish and the Saudi kings. Here is the background to understand the €1.8Bn contract