The result of the UK’s June 2016 referendum on continued membership of the EU was unexpected and its consequences may be wide-ranging and grave. This report considers the impact of the UK’s exit from the European Union (‘Brexit’) on the security of Estonia, the Baltic Sea region and Europe more widely. Its focus is hard security – military security and defence.
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Research Fellow Henrik Praks spoke on November 22 in Riga at the public discussion organised by the Latvian Institute of International Affairs (LIIA) in order to mark the publication of its book – “The Baltic Sea Region: Hard and Soft Security Reconsidered”. He contributed to a panel which focussed on the hard security aspects of the region in the wake of NATO Warsaw Summit and the following developments, including the election of Donald Trump as next US President.
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A selection of experts answer a new question from Judy Dempsey on the foreign and security policy challenges shaping Europe’s role in the world.
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“Estonia has its own defence forces and together with the Nato battalion this is a serious combat group,” insists Tomas Jermalavicius of the International Centre for Defence and Security in Tallinn. “What we now have is a strong tripwire in case of Russian aggression.”
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Proposals for greater defence cooperation in the EU have proliferated in the wake of the Brexit referendum result.
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The Dutch newspaper TROUW ran a front-page story about the return of conscription in Europe, with Lithuania being the first country to have reinstated mandatory military service in the post-Cold War era.
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In 2014 President Obama told an Estonian audience: ‘Article 5 is crystal clear: An attack on one is an attack on all. So if, in such a moment, you ever ask again, “who will come to help,” you’ll know the answer — the NATO Alliance, including the Armed Forces of the United States of America…We’ll be here for Estonia. We will be here for Latvia. We will be here for Lithuania. You lost your independence once before. With NATO, you will never lose it again.’
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On August 12, 2016 International Centre for Defence and Security contributed a series of discussions held in Paide at the traditional Opinion Festival / Arvamusfestival.
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ICDS Chief Executive Dmitri Teperik participated in the expert study-visit, which took place in Berlin on 18-22 July 2016. The main aim of the training session was to learn German experience in promoting national defence and security for strengthening societal resilience.
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ICDS Chief Executive Dmitri Teperik and Head of Studies Tomas Jermalavicius shared with the Irish Times their views and insights about strengthening national defence in Estonia.
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