📢 EU Finance Ministers set in motion European Investment Bank Group Action Plan to step-up support for Europe’s security and defence industry! If you haven't yet, read Camille Grand's commentary on the #EDIS and the major issue of defence financing ➡️ ecfr.eu/article/openin…
#ECOFIN #fridayreads

Polish FM: “The EU has spent double what the U.S. has spent on helping Ukraine. We are often suspected, in the U.S., including in Congress, of being free riders. Well, on this one, we have done the right thing. We now need 🇺🇸 to do what the President has promised”

A moratorium that was extremely credible in the first place

Such a pleasure to discuss NATO burden-sharing with Camille Grand & Barry Posen at GU Security Studies #NATO75 conference, expertly moderated by Brian Blankenship. Congrats to Sara Bjerg Moller for putting together such an excellent day-long programme!

#France ’s #CharlesdeGaulle 🇫🇷 is coming under #NATO command for the 1st time, reflecting our shared commitment to cooperation & interoperability. This warship keeps vital sea lanes open & secure, increasing NATO’s vigilance in the Mediterranean Sea #WeAreNATO

Comme annoncé hier par Ministère des Armées 🇫🇷, le #CharlesdeGaulle 🇫🇷 sera placé sous contrôle opérationnel de l’OTAN. Une 1️⃣ère.
⚠️ : le contrôle opérationnel (OPCON) est une délégation dans l’exécution de la mission définie par le commandement opérationnel (OPCOM) assuré par Chef d'état-major des armées 🇫🇷

Au fait, avec la Norvège, cela fait 9 États qui 'n'excluent pas de devoir déployer des troupes en Ukraine'.
🇫🇷🇨🇦🇳🇱🇱🇹🇱🇻🇪🇪🇵🇱🇨🇿🇫🇮🇳🇴
Alors, bien entendu, aujourd'hui, personne 'n'en a envie' ou 'ne s'apprête à le faire à court terme'. 1/
mil.in.ua/en/news/norway…

Former Russian diplomat Bondarew (who resigned in protest in May 22) has an article in Spiegel *extremely critical* of the non-strategic approach of most NATO country leaders - and complementing Macron’s strategic ambiguity.
(Transl in Alt)

spiegel.de/ausland/ukrain…

“Macron understands that his legacy on Europe is inseparable from the European legacy on Ukraine” observed Bruno Tertrais. Listen on the latest episode of Brussels Sprouts with Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Jim Townsend. cnas.org/publications/p…

This is Sciences Po
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📰 “The notion that Scholz would avoid a NATO-Russian war by not delivering a sort of equipment—be it tanks or Taurus—is utterly ridiculous. Actually, the opposite is true' -
Gustav C. Gressel in Newsweek 👇buff.ly/3U1B4uj

📰🇫🇷 A must-read from our ECFR Paris colleague Célia Belin for Foreign Affairs 👇 foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/macron…

Who said twitter no longer told you inspiring things

Great conference , congratulations Sara Bjerg Moller it was a pleasure to join such a distinguished group of speakers

🎧 Has Biden’s foreign policy performance been a success? Where has it fallen short of the goals Biden set? And has his team of foreign policy experts lived up to the promise of restoring America’s foreign policy? ECFR US

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☢️Coup de projecteur sur la Force Aéronavale NUcléaire (FANU) 🚀

Alors que les Forces Aériennes Stratégiques (FAS) de 🇫🇷 l' Armée de l'Air et de l'Espace s'apprêtent à mener à bien leur exercice trimestriel simulant un raid ☢️ la Marine nationale met en avant cette composante peu connue 🧶

❗️Event❗️

Today, Luis Simón will speak at a GU Security Studies event on 'NATO at 75' with Ambassador Julianne Smith David Sanger Sten Rynning Justyna Gotkowska Angus Lapsley Heather Williams Dr Benedetta Berti Sara Bjerg Moller Ivo Daalder Tara_Varma Camille Grand Sophia Besch.

More info🔸 css.georgetown.edu/natoat75/

Happy to be back in DC to speak at a great event at ⁦Georgetown University⁩: “NATO at 75: Charting a New Course” with so many good friends and colleagues css.georgetown.edu/natoat75/

NATO is 75, but it’s not your grandparents’ NATO. For decades, the Alliance has worked hard to adapt to new security challenges and has evolved. Just in the last few years we’ve reinforced our eastern flank, ramped up investments in our defense industry, and welcomed two…

La mort de l'empathie humaine est l'un des premiers signes et le plus révélateur d'une culture sur le
point de sombrer dans la barbarie.

Hannah Arendt