Although the EU’s increased defence efforts and states’ diverging industrial interests will inevitably create tensions in the short-term, these should not be allowed to poison transatlantic relations.
Dr Ulrich Kuhn responds to calls that the EU could diffuse the current INF Treaty crisis by initiating independent talks with Moscow.
On 11 March 2019, ELN Policy Fellow Alice Billon-Galland headed to Washington DC to attend the Carnegie Endowment’s workshop on “European Defence Cooperation in a New Transatlantic Context.”
Former NATO Assistant Secretary-General for Defence Policy and Planning and ELN Member, (ret.) Lieutenant General Heinrich Brauss, reflects on Alliance readiness in NATO’s 70th year.
Faced with transatlantic rifts, Allies should concentrate not on grand designs but rather on implementing the Wales agenda and strengthening Euro-Atlantic security from the bottom-up.
The ELN partnered with the Federation of German Industries (BDI) to host a high-level roundtable on European defence at the 2019 Munich Security Conference.