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IS-held territory will be reconquered – and then?
If Europe cannot engage as a security actor in its own neighbourhood, it will be locked out of the region.
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Brexit will not be « the greatest negotiation of all times”
After reading another declaration about the titanic nature of the Brexit negotiation, in some kind of Proustian reminiscence, I went back to my childhood. Of course, for children’s eyes all […]
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Uncertain reform call meets structural rigidities: The EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy in 2016
Christian Deubner assesses how a strengthened and more binding integration of the external security and defence policies of the EU Member States could improve their security in the Union’s more dangerous […]
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Construct European Defence in Brussels
Now that a window of opportunity seems to exist to move from defence cooperation to defence integration in Europe, Belgium especially should push hard in order not to waste the […]
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The mounting dislocation of EU law
In a noteworthy recent analysis, Margaret Macmillan affirmed that Europe will hold fast against populism. “Respect for the rule of law will overcome any chance of a return to the […]
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September 2016: Back-to-school politics – the EU’s new commitments
A snapshot of the EU’s new ambitions in the wake of the State of the Union speech and the Bratislava Declaration as scene-setters for the ‘rentrée politique’.