Open-letter to the new French president on European security
Alice Billon-Galland, Researcher at the ELN, encourages the newly-elected President Macron to take the lead in European defence and security cooperation.
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.
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.
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.
Admiral Alain Coldefy, former General Inspector of the French Armed Forces, argues that Trump will likely approach foreign and security policy in a far more pragmatic way than his rhetoric suggests, and that France need not worry too much.
Joseph Dobbs, a Research Fellow at the ELN, argues that France is the most important bilateral relationship for the UK in a post-Brexit Europe and makes seven recommendations on how London and Paris can cooperate to protect European security.