In 2025 the world’s leading donor nations cut their development assistance to Africa at the same moment, and on a scale not seen in decades. The United States led the way, reducing its African aid from roughly twelve billion dollars to a fraction of th…
Kategoriarkiv: Europe
NATO 3.0?
When the alliance’s leaders gathered in Ankara this week, one phrase hovered over the summit without ever landing in its official text: “NATO 3.0”. That absence matters. The term captures a real strategic pressure: a rebalancing in which Europe assumes…
ReArming Europe: What is the current state of affairs?
With the aim to build up deterrence and defence forces adapted to new global realities, defence spending in EU member states has doubled since 2022. This European Policy Analysis takes stock of the current rearmament efforts with a focus on the EU’s fi…
Shall We Go Forward Together? Of Deals and Red Lines
Lennart Meri Lecture given by Constanze Stelzenmüller on 17 May 2025 at the Lennart Meri Conference 2025 in Tallinn. Dear President Karis, Dear present and former presidents, prime ministers, ministers, and ambassadors (I think that covers the waterfr…
Reflections/conclusions after a seminar on the topic ”US interests and priorities?”
On 13 May, the Security Policy Section (VI) of the Academy arranged an on-line seminar aimed at providing a comprehensive and realistic picture of US strategic interests and priorities in relation to Europe and its northern part. The seminar was the se…
Europe Must Urgently Prepare to Deter Russia Without Large-Scale US Support
NATO’s European members must ramp up investment in ammunition production and focus military training and force structures against key mission sets to credibly deter Russia from exploiting a clash between the US and China in the late 2020s as an opportu…
The European Union in the ‘Brooding Shadow of War’
‘The state among states, it is often said, conducts its affairs in the brooding shadow of violence. Because some states may at any time use force, all states must be prepared to do so – or live at the mercy of their militarily more vigorous neighbours….