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 wide array of specific cooperation projects and investment pledges.
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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 published in Svenska Dagbladet in Sweden and in several newspapers belonging to Lännen Mediat in Finland.
The article is printed below in an English translation.
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ICDS held two roundtable discussions on 20 June 2018: first, on the EU’s Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) for 2021-2027, and second, on the NATO Summit to be held on 11-12 July in Brussels.
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NATO’s air defence capability has declined over the past decades, a period during which the Allies have usually been able to operate assuming air superiority. Russia’s air power, by contrast, has grown in size and sophistication.
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The next NATO Summit meeting will be held in Brussels on 11–12 July. The heads of state and government will be taking stock of the decisions of the Wales and Warsaw Summits and implement further the adaptation of the Alliance to respond to the wide range of 21st-century security challenges.
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ICDS Research Fellow Kalev Stoicescu gave an interview in the Russian language ETV+ morning program on CCD COE and the cyber defence exercise Locked Shield 2018.
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On April 4 Sven Sakkov, Director of ICDS, moderated a panel “NATO-EU Cooperation in Countering Hybrid Threats — From Past Origins to Future Prospects” at the sixth “NATO-EU Roundtable” organised by the Estonian Atlantic Treaty Organisation in cooperation with the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and NATO Headquarters.
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For more than a decade, Russia has been signaling to the West that it is not satisfied with its position in the European security order and global politics more broadly.
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In 2015, the Baltic states declared their intent to withdraw from the BRELL agreement and desynchronize their power grids from the IPS/UPS synchronous area to which they still belong as part of the legacy of Soviet occupation.
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