The SDA is a proud partner of the 2011 Defence Conference. This year’s conference, held in Warsaw, will focus on research and development issues in European defence. The European Defence Conference (EDC) aims to foster cooperation in the defence and security sector between private companies, knowledge institutes, governments and …
The SDA is a proud partner of the 2011 Defence Conference. This year’s conference, held in Warsaw, will focus on research and development issues in European defence. The European Defence Conference (EDC) aims to foster cooperation in the defence and security sector between private companies, knowledge institutes, governments and international organizations. The conference format provides opportunities for discussion on policy and procedures, briefing of practical technical res…
Europe’s security thinking is to undergo an overhaul once the EU’s new diplomatic arm – the European External Action Service (EEAS) – formulates its responses to fast-moving security challenges, including those of the Arab Spring. How best can these EU-level responses be reconciled with member states’ national interests and policies, and can recent initiatives such as the Franco-British defence agreement or the looser Franco-German-Polish “Weimar Triangle” give Europe’s defence drive fresh impet…
Cyber-security stakeholders, actors and victims span governments, national and international institutions, major corporations and interest groups. This debate opens a new SDA series that seeks to make sense of the confusion over cyber-security and cyber-crime, and examines the cooperation mechanisms both in place and urgently needed. How vulnerable is Europe to cyber-attack, and what EU-level measures are now under discussion? And how does Europe compare in the global drive to promote cyber-prot…