German public says ‘jein’ to European security
A new poll shows that the German public is increasingly concerned with security, but is dismissive of its American security guarantor and unwilling to pay more to help Europe replace it
Defence, Security and Tech
Pesco, the impotent gorilla
Criticisms of PESCO could equally be applied to Germany’s broader security and defence policy
EU defence efforts miss the open goal again
PESCO’s commitments have been watered down so as to become virtually meaningless
Time for the Sleeping Beauty to wake
Whether Europe will be able to make a difference in foreign policy depends on whether member states can fulfil PESCO’s commitments
Attribution is what states make of it
It is high-time for the Europeans to wake up from their hopes and dreams to build norms and rules for state behaviour in cyberspace
The UN GGE is dead: Time to fall forward
The top down UN GGE process appears dead in the water. International norms and laws for responding to cyber attacks must now be built from the bottom up.
Countering online radicalisation
Part of the solution is to rely on the internet’s most essential strength – its vast army of ordinary users
A European approach to military drones and artificial intelligence
When people hear the word ‘drones’, they think of targeted killings and the United States. They picture the “Predator” or the “Reaper”, the world’s most…
Security through politics
Europe should not confine itself to adopting a narrow security-driven approach in Libya
Now or never on European defence
It is time for Europe’s defence pioneers to move on out