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
European Security
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
At last, the stars are aligned for European defence
It is beginning to look as though the concept of ring-fencing or reserving a portion of national budgets to be spent collaboratively might finally get airborne
Trident replacement: losing its vocation?
Britain’s departure from the EU may make the case for its nuclear deterrent replacement harder to sustain
Spain versus Russia’s kleptocracy
Let policy not simply be driven by individual judges and magistrates, a case here and a country there – let it be something debated at a national and European Union level and adopted on a broader basis