ELN Director Sir Adam Thomson and Policy Fellow Alice Billon-Galland argue that a new approach to strategic autonomy is needed to provide a long-term framework to increase Europe’s ability to protect its security interests.
ELN Senior Associate Fellow Nicholas Williams argues that, even if the EU’s military function in Bosnia has evolved from a deterrent to a reassurance role, the military presence could at some stage become an obstacle to progress towards EU membership.
ELN Policy Fellow Alice Billon-Galland discusses France's participation in the missile strikes on Syria and President Macron's international leadership role.
Despite the latest show of EU-NATO burgeoning collaboration, the Berlin Plus agreement has seemingly been quietly forgotten. Now is the time to recall the benefits of the only framework for NATO-EU operational cooperation in a crisis.
ELN Policy Fellow Alice Billon-Galland spoke at the Austrian Institute for International Affairs’ panel discussion on “Europe’s Transforming Security Landscape and NATO” in Vienna, on 19 March 2018.
At the 2018 Munich Security Conference, the ELN and the Federation of German Industries (BDI) hosted a roundtable discussion on the state of Franco-German defence collaboration and industrial cooperation and its impact on the rest of Europe.