Newsletter of EuroDefense-Portugal – N1 JAN2021

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.

Comments on the proposal to introduce a screening of third country nationals at the external borders

The European Commission has opened the possibility for interested parties to provide comments and feedback regarding the proposed Regulation of the European Parliament and the Council introducing a screening of third country nationals at the EU’s external borders (COM (2020) 612 final 2020/0278). EURODEFENSE-ESPAÑA would like to avail itself of this possibility to make the following comments:

L’Europe de la cybersécurité au prisme de la souveraineté, des flux et de l’intégration. Trois lectures distinctes d’une « sécurité collective et collaborative »

L’objectif de cet article est de présenter une lecture conceptuelle de la cybersécurité européenne voulue comme « collective et collaborative ». En prenant appui sur ces théories, il est possible de dégager trois lectures distinctes : une sécurité par « le bas » en adoptant une approche par la souveraineté nationale, une sécurité transversale en privilégiant une approche par les flux transnationaux et une sécurité par « le haut » en optant en faveur d’une approche par l’intégration européenne.

The European Union pact on migration and asylum

On 23 September 2020, the European Commission proposed a so-called “New Pact on Migration and Asylum” -document COM (2020) 609 final-. In August 2020, EURODEFENSE-ESPAÑA presented to the Commission a paper on The New Pact, responding to the opportunity offered for interested parties to contribute to this debate. This paper was later distributed within the EURODEFENSE network.

EWG27 – Policy Proposal on EU Defense

EURODEFENSE Working Group 27 was established to “prepare a Policy Proposal to be submitted by EURODEFENSE to the security- and defence-related EU institutions such as the EU Council, the Commission and the EU Parliament” and formulate a concept for the development of the EU defence organisation within the present legal framework and given present political realities.