The European Defence Industry Programme (EDIP) aims to increase the EU’s defence readiness and buttress its armaments industry. Auditors call for a sturdier policy design and a better balance between objectives, budget and timeline. Accountability arrangements must be clarified and strengthened.
The European Defence Agency (EDA) joined the large-scale military exercise ‘Robotic Experimentation Maritime Unmanned Systems (REPMUS)’ for the first time as a co-organiser, running several initiatives.
A fundamental science program at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) seeks to more easily and rapidly encode obligations, permissions, and prohibitions into logical languages of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Artificial Intelligence (AI).
“The world has changed profoundly since 2014 when I took up my post as NATO Secretary General. Putin has brought brutal war back to Europe, global competition has accelerated, and many challenges – from terrorism to disruptive technologies and from cyber-attacks to climate change – have transformed our security landscape and our everyday lives. As the world has changed, so has NATO” – writes NATO Secretary General in his reflections
From 10 to 20 September 2024, over 450 participants from 19 NATO Allies and three partner-countries gathered in the Netherlands to test the ability of commercially available counter-drone systems to operate seamlessly together. Ukraine participated for the first time, alongside members of the private sector and research community.
The resolution, adopted on Thursday 19 September with 425 votes in favour, 131 against and 63 abstentions, states that without lifting current restrictions, Ukraine cannot fully exercise its right to self-defence and remains exposed to attacks on its population and infrastructure.
Air defence is a classic European public good. No individual nation alone can provide it comprehensively, while air defence provided individual European Union countries can offer significant benefits to Europe as a whole. Joint EU funding for the build-up of greater air defence capabilities would be thus justified and help ensure rapid and sufficient provisioning.
Representatives from the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Moldova visited NATO Headquarters on 10 September 2024, where they met with a range of officials from NATO’s International Staff and experts in the domain of defence education.
It will take Germany, and Europe more generally, decades to match current Russian volumes of weapons production, according to the latest analysis published today by EU Think Tank Bruegel.
Each innovator is developing a deep technology solution for one of three security challenges identified by NATO Allies: sensing and surveillance, energy resilience, and secure information sharing.
The Swedish Government presented Sweden’s 17th military support package to Ukraine. The package, worth SEK 4.6 billion, meets Ukraine’s military needs and creates freedom of action for the future. It includes donations of materiel, direct procurement, material units and financial contributions.
Politics is the art of the possible. But the line between the possible and the impossible is never fixed – it shifts in both directions. Here are ten key items on the EU’s to-do list for supporting Ukraine.
“Wir bauen mit der „European Sky Shield Initiative“ eine starke Luftverteidigung auf. Wie lebenswichtig eine starke Flug- und Raketenabwehr sein kann, lässt sich auf dramatische Weise an der Front und in den Städten der Ukraine beobachten. Iris-T ist dort zum Schutzwall gegen die zahllosen Raketen geworden” – Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz.
The Federal Council approved Switzerland’s participation in two EU Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) projects. The two projects–Military Mobility and Cyber Ranges Federation–offer the opportunity to expand international cooperation between armed forces. This will strengthen Switzerland’s national defence capability, in accordance with its neutrality obligations.
The EU hat published its statement at the Group of Governmental Experts on emerging technologies in the area of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems: In the study, development, acquisition, or adoption of a new weapon, means or method of warfare, determination must be made whether its employment would, in some or all circumstances, be prohibited by international law.
The NATO-Ukraine Council met on Wednesday (28 August 2024) following recent heavy Russian airstrikes against Ukrainian civilians and infrastructure. Allies strongly condemned Russia’s indiscriminate strikes and reaffirmed their commitment to further strengthen Ukraine’s defences.
“At the beginning of this decade, many illusions have been shattered in Europe. The illusion that peace was achieved once and for all. The illusion that prosperity might matter more to Putin than his delusional dreams of empire. The illusion that Europe was doing enough on security – be it economically or militarily. Today, we cannot afford any more illusions. The second half of this decade will be high-risk” –
The EU Satellite Centre plays a unique role in Europe’s security ecosystem, supplying EU and Member States actors with critical analysis of satellite imagery. To stay at the forefront of geospatial intelligence and meet rising demand, SatCen’s resources need to keep pace.
“The weaponry that we are providing to Ukraine has to have full use, and the restrictions have to be lifted in order for the Ukrainians to be able to target the places from where Russia is bombing them. Otherwise, the weaponry is useless” – EU High Representative Borrell.
Today, the U.S. Department of State submitted to the U.S. Congress a determination that Australia and UK defense export control systems are comparable to those of the United States and have implemented a reciprocal export exemption for U.S. entities.
The European Commission decided to open an infringement procedure by sending a letter of formal notice to Denmark, the Netherlands, Slovenia, and Finland for failing to transpose into their national legislation the Directive (EU) 2024/242 amending Directive 2009/43/EC as regards the updating of the list of defence-related products.
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