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The European Union (EU) is today the most open market in the world, but how can it ensure freedom of maritime traffic in the face of growing tensions and conflicts at sea?

After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the end of the USSR in 1991, we naively believed that the war in Europe was over. We witnessed a drop in budgets and a reduction in military personnel, particularly in France.

To talk about the Indo-Pacific, we must first define its contours. And that already becomes complicated because, depending on whether we are talking about geography, economics, politics, military...

Civil and military navies still play a key role in controlling the flow of energy (oil, liquefied gas) and raw materials.

The world of the 2020s is the most unstable since World War II. The United States is less interventionist than ever – after withdrawals from Vietnam, Iraq and, most recently, Afghanistan. The European Union will not be able to cope alone with an invasion by Russia in what it considers to be its strategic zone of influence, while V. Putin, for his part, has chosen the moment to concretize his project for the reconstitution of the former Soviet Empire.

"We want to maintain this dialogue," said Ukrainian negotiator Andriï Iermak. The Russians and Ukrainians have agreed to work towards a consolidation of the ceasefire in eastern Ukraine where a conflict between kyiv and pro-Russian separatists has claimed more than 13,000 lives since 2014.

En cette année où nous célébrons le bicentenaire de la mort de Napoléon Bonaparte à Sainte Hélène, quelques notes en référence à ce personnage hors du commun, aimé et honni.

Face aux enjeux de défense extérieure, mais aussi intérieure (en particulier terrorisme ou radicalisme), et en conformité avec notre Manifeste, nous pensons que l’Europe sera d’autant plus respectée et son avenir assuré qu’elle pourra s’appuyer sur une force reconnue et crédible réunissant des femmes et des hommes de haute valeur tant morale que militaire.

If in the 19th century the mastery of the seas ensured world domination, the most striking example being that of Great Britain. In the 21st century, are GAFAMI, BTAX, artificial intelligence and quantum computing the key elements?

by Olivier Renault. The question of the creation of a European army made the headlines of the French media in 2018. We read, "the head of state [Emmanuel Macron] pleads for the creation of a" real European army ". Since then, there has been silence on this project, although the annual report on the implementation of the EU's common security and defense policy via the Foreign Affairs Committee with rapporteur Sven Mikeser published last December confirms the burial of this idea of a European army, explaining the deafening silence of the French president on this subject. https://reseauinternational.net/armee-europeenne-la-france-seule/

In the current state of virtual non-existence of a European defense, it is unrealistic to say that NATO is brain dead, as President Macron has indicated. Created in 1949 in the climate established in 1947 by the “cold war” between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), NATO has been led by the United States from the outset.

Before specifying the content of the MARRAKECH agreement, it is useful to establish a chronology of the events which have occurred since the creation of the European Union, to better understand the gravity of the current situation.