Experts & Staff

Laurence Boone

Head of Santander Corporate & Investment Banking France
Former Secretary of State for European Affairs, France

May 23, 2024, Kharkiv, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine: At 11 a.m., two S300 anti-aircraft missiles struck the site of a printing works in the south of Kharkiv.

Better firefighting: Readying Europe for an age between war and peace

Laurence Boone, Nicu Popescu
Policy Brief
4 November 2024

Facing wars and crises, the EU can no longer rely on slow peacetime processes. It needs a plan for faster industrial and infrastructural adaptation

Need for speed: The case for a European defence production act

Laurence Boone, Nicu Popescu
Commentary
17 July 2024

The EU’s red tape is preventing it from responding quickly enough to major crises. An EU defence production act could help