Building on consultations with officials a new ELN report assesses the progress made since the 2016 EU-NATO Joint Declaration. It takes two key areas as case studies: exercising and capacity building, through which it identifies achievable opportunities for further EU-NATO cooperation.
Alice Billon-Galland, Researcher at the ELN, encourages the newly-elected President Macron to take the lead in European defence and security cooperation.
Forty-five distinguished members of the network, the ELN Caucus, shared their views on the key dynamics characterising the security and defence landscape in Europe.
ELN Researcher Alice Billon-Galland argues that Europeans should watch the French legislative election just as closely as the presidential one as the fate of France – and Europe – will still be in the balance on 8th May.
ELN Director Sir Adam Thomson looks at Europe’s current inability to act autonomously on its own defence and suggests aiming at a European rather than EU strategic autonomy, which would include EU-NATO collaboration.
Alice Billon-Galland, Researcher at the ELN, examines the views of the five leading candidates on France’s European defence partnerships and argues that the French election is providing strategic uncertainty to an already destabilised Europe.