The monthly publication of the EuroDefense-Portugal Newsletter, with content in Portuguese and the language in which the original articles were published, aims to bring to everyone’s attention the opinions of some experts on European Security and Defence, and on the issues that have marked the current month in Portugal, Europe and the world.
Even if they may seem to be more intense in the European southern region, the fact is that all the repercussions of the worrying insecurity emerging from the African continent affect all EU members states, without exception, as well as the UK. Europe, and namely the EU, needs to find adequate and constructive responses to them, while simultaneously dealing with equivalent, although different, security challenges on its northeastern border. It is the proper integration of these two realities that today defines the framework of European security.
The monthly publication of the EuroDefense-Portugal Newsletter with original articles published in Portuguese/English, aims to bring to everyone’s attention the publications of EuroDefense-Portugal, as well as the opinions of some experts on European Security and Defence, and on topics that have marked the current month in Portugal, Europe and the world.
The latest developments in ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) have brought numerous opportunities to improve and increase the efficiency of various systems, including those classified as CI (Critical Infrastructure) systems. But in addition to the benefits, new challenges arise that, if not adequately addressed, can result in catastrophic accidents. One of the biggest challenges is Cybersecurity. In this paper, we seek to identify the best and worst that has been done in this field, seeking to identify the Cybersecurity model(s) that best respond to these challenges.
OPINION ARTICLE – Former Air Force Chief of Staff, General Jean-Paul Paloméros and former senior executive of EADS (now Airbus) Denis Verret, both members of the Board of EuroDéfense-France, offer a series of arguments in favour of a truly ‘European’ missile defence system, highlighting their concerns about the European Sky Shield Initiative (ESSI) launched by Germany in 2022, which begs a multitude of questions.
“Published first in LA TRIBUNE” on 5 February 2024″
But can’t we do better?
Suggested ways and means.
Joint Article of Ralph Thiele, President of EuroDefenceGermany and Denis Verret, Member of the Council of EuroDefenceFrance: 26/10/2023
(NB: Disclaimer: the opinions expressed in this paper are those of the authors)
“Published first in La Tribune on 6 November 2023”
On 18 April, we were pleased to welcome French politician Alain Lamassoure, former Minister Delegate for European Affairs and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1999 to 2019, for a breakfast debate on the topic of “Those who control the past control the future”. It was he who, in November 2020 had founded the Observatory on History Teaching in Europe (OHTE) under the aegis of the Council of Europe.
The MPL forms part of the bedrock fuelled by developments in the European Union aimed at reinforcing EU strategic autonomy, the European DITB in particular, and is equally a contributory factor.
On 4 March 2023, the United Nations adopted the international treaty on “the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction”.