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(B2) Le « pays est complètement détruit. Tout doit être reconstruit ». Le niveau de l'armée est « faible »... De passage à Bruxelles pour la conférence sur la Centrafrique, le général Eric Hautecloque-Raysz — commandant de la mission EUTM RCA — n'a pas mâché ses mots sur la (re)formation de l'armée centrafricaine. Le défi est conséquent. […]

(B2) La réunion des ministres des Affaires étrangères et de la défense ces 14 et 15 novembre a été l'occasion de plusieurs déclarations et prises de position sur les différents sujets à l'ordre du jour... L'arrivée de Trump aux États-Unis il est "normal" de s'inquiéter Pour Margot Wallström, la ministre suédoise des Affaires étrangères, il est […]

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(B2) En 2012-2013, la crainte d'un possible génocide finit par mobiliser la communauté internationale. Après certaines hésitations, poussée par la France, l'Union européenne s'engage, de façon décisive, à aider à renforcer la stabilité du pays, à renforcer l'État et de consolidation de la paix, et à soutenir le rétablissement socioéconomique du pays. Un engagement qui […]

(B2) En 2008, l'Union européenne lance sa mission de renforcement de l'Etat de droit "EULEX Kosovo", au terme d’une période temporaire assurée durant près de deux ans par une équipe de planification (EUPT). Les Européens prennent le relais de la Mission des Nations unies (MINUK) dans ses différentes tâches de gestion de l’État de droit (justice, police, douanes) […]

The UK Navy's Royal Fleet Auxiliary vessel (RFA) Argus has resumed one of its primary roles as an aviation training ship after completing operational sea training.

SENER engineering and technology group has received the 11th Masterinstal Award in the Energy Efficiency and Energy Management category, for a power cogeneration project developed jointly with GTEL and Siemens for the Brazilian industry.

MBDA Deutschland has successfully conducted tracking tests with its new high-energy laser effector under real environmental conditions for the first time.

Insitu has successfully demonstrated its ScanEagle unmanned aerial system’s (UAS) newest wide-area maritime surface search and identification technology at the UK Royal Navy’s Unmanned Warrior exercise.

En réalité, l’ISSE est plus proche de 12000 euros en moyenne pour quatre mois.

(B2) Pour entrer dans l'espace Schengen, les ressortissants de pays tiers qui ont un accord de suspension des visas avec l'Union européenne devront, à partir de 2020, obtenir une autorisation d'entrée. C'est le coeur de la proposition législative présentée par la Commission européenne, mercredi 16 novembre, pour la création d'un système européen d'information et d'autorisation concernant les voyages […]

Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election is historical. Without any political experience, in defiance of the political establishment and the mainstream media, relying mostly on his own political instincts, he beat all the odds. Change is indeed coming to Washington, however, whether his presidency will be truly transformational remains to be seen. Here are my top 7 takeaways:

The most important dividing lines in the election were urban – rural, rich – poor and racial contrasts. Note that from the top ten richest states per capita only two went for Trump (rarely populated Alaska and North Dakota, rich because of petrol-industry), while he won all of the ten poorest states except for Maine. There are scores of indicators pointing at the economic hardships of rural America, here I would like to point to just one: while between 2002-2006 50 percent of the new jobs that were created in the US were dispersed throughout 120 counties– out of the 3143 -, between 2010 - 2014 the same figure dropped to 73 counties in and around only a handful of major cities, mostly in blue states.

Although the democrats lost, the American electoral map is changing: none-white votes, especially the Latino ones will matter more and more. The problem for the Clinton campaign was that the democrats forgot about their traditional hinterland: rural – industrial America, “the rustbelt”, populated mostly still by working class-whites. The democrat’s agenda of too much focus on minorities and liberal social issues has failed, and will fail again if more attention will not be given to the economic inequalities between classes and regions all across the board.
Trump will seek to balance between his radical right base and the republican establishment. Without the first he will lose popular support, without the latter he cannot govern. His first appointments and his backtracking on some major policy issues confirm this dual approach. However, with so conflicting ideas and world views in the White House, we can expect intensified conflicts to come within the Trump administration and the Republicans.

It will not be the end of America’s global engagement, but expect change. To potential adversaries such as China and Russia, the glass is half full, half empty: likely less American ‘World policing’, less scrutiny on human rights, but more problems on trade and arms buildup. There could be deeper cooperation with Russia on certain issues, but no one should set high hopes on a successful Reset 2.0. There is one thing Donald Trump likes better than making good deals: win. And the list of issues for potential conflict with President Putin or with China is long. As for NATO, it will not be dissolved, but if Europeans will not deliver much more on defense, instead of the other organization in Brussels, it will be just another organization.

Trump’s election does not mean much good for multilateralism, for trade liberalization, for arms control, for fighting climate change, for open door on migration – signature issues of the Obama presidency. Many of these issues will spark strong debates with European partners. A Trump administration might be good news for parties striving to gain back powers from Brussels into purely national hands. But how far would this nationalist wave go in terms of European disintegration? And what would this mean for Europe’s power structure and for small European countries? Complex questions with highly uncertain answers.

The success of Trump’s presidency will be measured primarily on how he tackles economic inequality, the urban-rural dived in American society, its budget deficit, the challenges of illegal immigration and terrorism. If President Trump would succeed in making progress on some of these issues, that would make America stronger, but the foundation of the transatlantic Alliance stronger.

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The US Navy has deployed its maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft (MPRA) to support recovery operations in the earthquake-hit South Island of New Zealand.

The US and Malaysian Armed Forces have jointly conducted Exercise Tiger Strike 16 in Lahad Datu, Malaysia, to increase combat readiness and conduct amphibious operations.

Technology solutions provider Black Box has received an award to upgrade the US Marine Corps’ (USMC) existing telecommunication network architecture and systems to a high-availability Unified Communications solution at MCB Camp Lejeune, North Carolin…

(B2) Le ministre français des Affaires étrangères, Jean-Marc Ayrault, et son homologue tchèque, Lubomír Zaorálek, ont appelé, dans une tribune commune (publiée dans Ouest France le 14 novembre, le jour de la réunion du Conseil des ministres de l'UE), à construire « ensemble » une Union « crédible et réactive dans les domaines de la sécurité et […]

(B2 - exclusif) Loin des sunlights, et des constats d'autosatisfaction politiques, le rapport approuvé lors de la réunion des ministres, ce 15 novembre, sur les capacités militaires montre une réalité plus crue de la volonté de défense européenne. « Les progrès dans le domaine des capacités militaires est faible » affirme-t-il. C'est « lent », […]

(B2) Les conclusions adoptées par les 28 ministres de l'Union européenne sur la politique de sécurité et de défense définissent un « saut qualitatif » qui brise certains tabous, permettant à l'Union de la défense de passer de la théorie à une véritable stratégie concrète. C'est en tout cas le message politique transmis à l'unisson […]

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