From Albania and North Macedonia to Kosovo and Serbia, the EU’s lack of unity on enlargement policy will have destabilising effects in its own backyard.
On the day of the second ministerial meeting of the European Intervention Initiative (E2I) in the Netherlands, Alice Billon-Galland spoke to Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant about what is at stake for France and what E2I means for European security.
Deteriorating relations between Russia and NATO and the increasing capacity for rapid deployment and concentration of forces increases instability and the risk of military escalation, namely in the Baltic region. Against this background, the countries concerned could be interested in a conventional arms control regime that helps to prevent destabilising build-ups of forces and to enhance maritime security.
ELN Policy Fellow Alice Billon-Galland interviewed by Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant on a possible European military operation in the Strait of Hormuz.
Oleg Shakirov is a Consultant at PIR Center. Graduated from the South Ural State University with a degree in international relations (2010). In 2015, he received an MA degree from the John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. In 2011-2012, Oleg worked as a news editor at the...
ELN Policy Fellow & YGLN Vice-chair Julia Berghofer participated in the annual EISS Conference 2019 in Paris from 27 to 28 June at Science Po. The organizers invited a multidisciplinary and geographically diverse group of scholars and practitioners to discuss Europe's most pressing security...