🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

🚨 NEWS | The Washington Summit Declaration Read the annotated version by EPC's Paul Taylor, a journalist and think-tanker who has covered NATO since 1979, on what the 32 NATO leaders said, what they didn’t say, and what they may have meant. Read here: buff.ly/3xWEmGV

To wrap up your #NATOSummit week, here is Paul Taylor European Policy Centre with his take, reading "between the lines" as they say👇

Brand new for the weekend! “The 7Ds – Defence Extended” for Martens Centre with me Ionela Maria Ciolan Michael Benhamou @StevenBlockmans Christian Mölling Mihai Chihaia Alessandro Marrone Paola Tessari Adérito Vicente. I focus on European strategic capability gaps. Read now! martenscentre.eu/publication/th…

🇪🇺🇨🇳|New Compendium "EU-China relations at a crossroads, Vol.III: Business unusual" The context of EU-China relations has shifted significantly in recent years. Mounting challenges and diverging interests pose potential threats to the bilateral dialogue. 1/17

Ex-Trump adviser Fiona Hill has joined the new UK Labour government’s review of defense capabilities — led by ex-NATO chief George Robertson, who outlined a “deadly quartet” of China, Russia, Iran and North Korea. Mason Boycott-Owen | POLITICOEurope: politico.eu/article/donald…

"The risks of a more differentiated #EU are outweighed by the urgent need to overcome blockades and preserve Europe’s capacity to act." Read more in the new European Policy Centre Discussion Paper by Fabian Zuleeg Almut Möller Janis A. Emmanouilidis here: epc.eu/en/Publication…

I think this is good: “We will look at all of our policies through a security lens. We will plan for scenarios that we hope will never come to pass, but we cannot take the risk of being underprepared or over reliant.”

#DemocracyDay is a good day to revisit European Policy Centre #OutlookPaper: “From voting to Geopolitics.” An electoral year on steroids that is far from over! Read it here: epc.eu/en/Publication… Amanda Paul 🇺🇦 Ivano di Carlo Mihai Chihaia Svitlana Taran Iana Maisuradze Shada Islam Elizabeth Kuiper…

✔️ “Kubilius said he had no wish to duplicate the role of Nato. Officials at the US-dominated alliance have criticised the EU’s alternative set of equipment standards and procurement efforts” 👀 “Kubilius said EU defence plans could include the UK” ft.com/content/8616b4…

👀 “…The Defence Commissioner should become the head of the EDA and the Council’s special representative for the Defence Union, exercising oversight over PESCO…” Some ideas in the EPP’s brand new paper on #EUdefence - eppgroup.eu/download/file/…

#France 🇫🇷 will deploy a brigade to reinforce the #NATO battlegroup in #Romania 🇷🇴 in key test for troops & military@mobility. Via ⁦POLITICOEurope⁩ ⁦@MissionAIGLE⁩ ⁦La France à l'OTAN⁩ ⁦Romania at NATO⁩ ⁦SHAPE - NATO Allied Command Operations⁩ politico.eu/article/france…

There is overwhelming support for greater defense efforts within the EU, with citizens considering it one of their most important concerns, Mihai Chihaia writes in our fall issue. ip-quarterly.com/en/what-europe…

#MilitaryMobility. You’ll hear much more about this in coming weeks & months. It is basically a win-win for govs as they upgrade their country’s infrastructure & match standards needed to move military equipment from A to B. Check European Policy Centre Mihai Chihaia & Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die Freiheit work on it

Most recent European Policy Centre Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die Freiheit Mihai Chihaia policy brief on #MilitaryMobility: Military mobility 2.0 revisited: Lessons learnt epc.eu/en/Publication…

A number of good ideas and policy recommendations put forward by Martens Centre in their proposal for the White Paper on European Defence, focusing on defence production, innovation, military mobility, capability gaps, and financing of European defence. martenscentre.eu/publication/pr…

It's not every day that your work is praised by a 🇪🇺 Commissioner 😊. Thank you for the kind words Andrius Kubilius 🙏 and congrats to my colleagues who contributed to this proposal for the White Paper on European Defence Daniel Fiott Christian Mölling Mihai Chihaia and #KlausWelle

Military mobility is high on the EU agenda, but progress remains slow despite its strategic importance. Mihai Chihaia’s brief examines developments and highlights still needs to be done. European Policy Centre icds.ee/en/eu-defence-…

Read the latest brief of the ICDS Tallinn EU series on the key issue of military mobility written by Mihai Chihaia European Policy Centre

🎙️The Language of Power Podcast - New Episode Out In this episode, Paul Taylor, Mihai Chihaia & Ionela Maria Ciolan unpack the shifting dynamics of naval warfare, the role of coastal and non-littoral states, & the #EU’s newly released #BlackSea Strategy. 🎧 epc.eu/podcast/

📢 The stage is set at TheMerode for the first edition of the Brussels Economic Security Forum! Today we dive into the future of open #economic security, #trade resilience & strategic interdependence. #BESF2025 starts now. Stay tuned! #Livestream: besf.epc.eu/events/besf-su…