🇫🇷 Presidency of 🇪🇺 at 🇫🇷MoD | Non resident Fellow @AtlanticCouncil | European security & defence, a bit of Sahel | Standard disclaimer on views/RT/follow
May 30, 2020 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
New letter by the 🇩🇪🇪🇸🇮🇹🇫🇷 Ministers of Defence laying out their ambitions for European defence.
1/ Lessons Learned from #COVID19 2/ lays out what remains to be done in EU defence initiatives, ie basically a to-do list 3/ "Today more than ever, we need to allocate the necessary resources to our defence, both at national and EU level" #MFF 2/x
Jan 24, 2020 • 13 tweets • 6 min read
[THREAD] Should the US withdraw its forces from Africa to better focus on China and Russia?
A thread in light of the recent Pau Summit and as the US is considering a significant drawdown. 1/13
1/ The situation in the Sahel is not good. Terrorist attacks have been deadly in the past months and are moving south, towards the tri-border region of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger. But it’s not hopeless.
