Publications National publications

For the rationalisation of the planning and conduct structures of EU operations.

Since 2009, when the European Union (EU) decided to take action to manage a crisis, the Crisis Management and Planning Directorate (CMPD) of the European External Action Service (EEAS), under the authority of the High Representative (HR), has performed a civil/military planning on a political and strategic level.

National publications Publications

The Arctic: Ocean of the future for the security and the strategic autonomy of the European Union

During the last decades, global interest for the Arctic, an area of 25 million square km of which 14 million for the Arctic ocean, increased due to the climate change which led to the melting of the ice cap and the thawing of the permafrost. The attention of the global players is attracted not only by energy and natural resources but also by new maritime routes. This creates new environmental challenges and leads to potentially dramatic changes to international trade, which will contribute to the globalization of
this area.