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.
On 17 February 2018 at the Munich Security Conference, the ELN and the Federation of German Industries (BDI) hosted a high-level closed roundtable breakfast to discuss the Franco-German motor for Europe’s defence.
President Macron suggested that Europe should develop an intervention force with a common doctrine and budgetary instruments within the next decade. Dr Alice Pannier, Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University, looks at what such an “initiative” could look like.
Claire Demesmay and Jana Puglierin of the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) analyse the structural hurdles facing a Paris-Berlin axis, but conclude their government’s agendas are compatible enough to overcome any differences.
Alice Billon-Galland, Researcher at the ELN, encourages the newly-elected President Macron to take the lead in European defence and security cooperation.
Signed by over 20 French political, military, and academic leadership figures, this appeal calls for the new French president to engage in genuine action towards a world without nuclear weapons.