Much as the related “Ukraine fatigue” pandemic swept Washington in the aftermath of the 2004-05 Orange Revolution, Eastern Partnership (EaP) fatigue is alas an increasingly common illness among...
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The landscape of European security and defence cooperation has become a busy one. Last year, 25 of the 28 EU Member States signed up to commit to Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO), spurring a...
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On 20 June 2018, seven Finnish and seven Swedish former ambassadors, journalists and military officers published a debate article advocating NATO membership for their two countries. The article was...
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The European Union is currently in the early stages of the next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) 2021-2027 negotiations. The MFF is a multiannual investment budget, providing funding for large...
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The Russian disinformation campaigns in the West have been the subject of substantial political and media attention, especially around recent elections, but the lack of real empirical data makes any...
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Last week, the 2018 Annual Cyber Security Assessment of the Estonian Information System Authority (RIA) was presented at the ICDS. The presentation of the Assessment was followed with an in-depth...
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Canada was invited to join the group of six largest advanced Western economies in 1976, in Dorado, Puerto Rico. Pierre Elliott Trudeau (“PET”), the 15th Prime Minister of Canada, joined Gerald...
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The economic chains in world trade are long and complicated, both in terms of time and...
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A subdued but still dramatic sign of the fundamentally changed security situation in the Baltic Sea region is about to be delivered to some five million Swedish households this week, that is to the...
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On 8 May 2018, the Finnish and Swedish Ministers of Defense, Jussi Niinistö and Peter Hultqvist, met with U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis at the...
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