After nearly a decade of support for civilian police in Afghanistan, the European Union Police Mission in Afghanistan (EUPOL) officially closed its activities today, Saturday (31 December 2016) at midnight. In fact, the mission has already slowed down its activities for a few days already. A meeting marking the end of the mission was organized,…
The new European Border and Coast Guard Agency (EBCG) is established today, October 6, 2016. This successor of the former Frontex (from French: Frontières extérieures for “external borders”) is an agency of the European Union headquartered in Warsaw, Poland, tasked with border control of the European Schengen Area, in coordination with the border and coast…
Selon ancien Secrétaire général exécutif du SEAE (Service européen pour l’action extérieure), Pierre Vimont, “construire des murs face aux flux de migrants va se révéler inefficace”. En tout cas il ne propose aucune alternative…
“On 26 July 2016, Ms Maria-Cristina Stepanescu, a senior police officer from Romania, was appointed Head of the European Union mission on regional maritime capacity building in the Horn of Africa, EUCAP Nestor. She will take up her duties on 1 September 2016. She takes over from Acting Head Simonetta Silvestri. This civilian CSDP mission…
