The European Defence Programme focuses on the future of European security, in the frameworks of the EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) and the NATO European pillar. It addresses the opportunities for enhancing EU-NATO relations, encouraging greater commitment to transatlantic burdensharing and improving European cohesion on security matters.
The programme will also seek to examine the changing role of the UK in European security after Brexit, in parallel with analysing the role of members of the wider Euro-Atlantic space.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ahead of Theresa May's speech at the Munich Security Conference, ELN members Wolfgang Ischinger and Stefano Stefanini argue that EU-UK cooperation on security and foreign policy is indispensable to both parties and must continue irrespective of Brexit.
Anna Wieslander, Director for Northern Europe at the Atlantic Council, argues that the Swedish approach to European defence leans heavily on out-of-area crisis management and civilian emphasis, with a reluctance to discuss the military side of cooperation.
Alice Billon-Galland will take part in the cyber security policy working group.
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.
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.
