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.
The West, and in particular the USA, has a long history of often violent and usually unsuccessful attempts at regime changes. After the Cold War the US-neo-conservative global strategy was based on US supremacy and exceptionalism and its goal was global control. The act of terrorism of 9/11 was a consequence of the role of the USA in the Middle East; blind support for the State of Israel, the first Gulf war, activating Muslim activists to get the Russians out of Afghanistan and support for dictatorial regimes.
The transatlantic has once again become a critical foundation for securing democracy and freedom in Europe. This time around, the threats are more diverse and ambiguous than the Soviet tanks of the past generation. Our adversaries, primarily Russia and increasingly China, continue their attempts at subverting democratic institutions and societies. Their toolkit ranges from now-familiar disinformation campaigns to cyber attacks, from political warfare to corruption, as they use economic leverage, energy dependence, and critical infrastructure vulnerabilities to coerce, bribe, or corrupt business and political elites.
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.
The European Commission has underlined several times how strategic autonomy should encompass a variety of sectors, ranging from economy to security. With the election of Joe Biden in the United States the pillar of security and defense, fundamental to European strategic autonomy has received growing attention.
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.
The EURODEFENSE Network publishes quarterly newsletters in English.
Following Macron’s speech at the Sorbonne in September 2017, announcing a strong push for the future of the Europe of Defence, a new Franco-German dynamic, which was later joined by Italy and Spain, has been pursuing, progressively and more rapidly, greater integration of European security and defence. The key to this initiative has been placed on the principle of cross-border defence cooperation in the development of priority military capabilities, which fulfill the main gaps in the defence sector, and in reducing the fragmentation of the current supply and demand dimensions, to ensure economies of scale, as well as to strengthening the competitiveness, innovation and efficiency of the European defence technological and industrial base.
Eurodéfense-France publishes quarterly newsletters in French and in English.
In cooperation with the Federation of European Defence Technology Associations (EDTA) EURODEFENSE has developed remarks on the “Action plan of the European Commission on synergies between civil, defence and space industries” as published on 22 February 2021 (EU reference COM(2021) 70). Among others, these comments have been sent to the Presidents of the European Commission, Council and Parliament.
