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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.

National publications Publications

A Maritime Strategy for the European Union

Europe, western Cape of the Eurasian continent is bordered by many seas and has inherited old maritime cultures. The maritime nations, members of the EU, have a common responsibility regarding the Union maritime security. Outside territorial waters, the sea is international. This is a fact which requires more and more co-ordination from the bordering states and becomes all the more topical as globalisation has a strong influence on the
maritime affairs.