European Defence Agency @EUDefenceAgency@respublicae.eu

#EDM24 | 🇩🇪 Defence Minister, Christine #Lambrecht, sat down with EDA to discuss;
🔹 close coordination between #EU & NATO
🔹 The war in #Ukraine
🔹 France & Germany special cooperation

📎 Read the full interview here: https://bit.ly/3QwMZgn

#StrongerTogether #EUdefence

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUDefenceAgency/status/1613551414499844098

#EDM24 | In an EDA interview, the Head of Ukraine's Mission to 🇪🇺 @VVChentsov discussed;
🔹#EU military aid
🔹 Future membership
🔹 🇺🇦 partnership with EDA

"Any war ends with a settlement. But that settlement is not Ukraine's surrender".

Read more https://bit.ly/3vWW88g

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUDefenceAgency/status/1613201319950417922

🚨 #EDAjobs | 4 days left to apply to:

💼 Project Officer Innovation
🖥️ IT Applications Administrator
✈️ Project Officer Aviation
📝Project Officer Land

⌛ Apply by 10/01

ℹ️ Find all EDA vacancies here: https://bit.ly/3QokmBN

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUDefenceAgency/status/1611375698135891970

This is the season! 🎄🎁

The European Defence Agency wishes you a Happy Christmas, New Year and relaxing winter holidays.

The agency will reopen on January 3rd ☃️

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUDefenceAgency/status/1605941289798746112

🔋Fully operational.

EDA’s Tactical Personnel Recovery Mission Simulator is used for rehearsing Personnel Recovery missions, tactics & techniques considered too risky for live training.

TPRMS -20 posts to replicate military ops, 🇮🇹 based & open

#EUdefence #AeronauticaMilitare

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUDefenceAgency/status/1605890220825935872

✈️Innovation in the air.

⛽️EDA's research into the hose and drogue system will prepare air-to-air refuelling tankers, such as the #MRTT to cope with more demanding operations and be ready for the next generation of unmanned platforms.

#EUdefence #Innovation #defencenews
RT @AirbusDefence: Airbus to lead research into automatic air-to-air refuelling #A3R for hose & drogue system, launched by @EDA. The 2-year project, led by Spain in collaboration with Germany, w…

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUDefenceAgency/status/1605858579382050816

⛽️ EDA launches research into automatic air-to-air refuelling.

New 🇪🇸 led & 🇩🇪 project starts to develop an automatic AAR operation with hose & drogue system, including flight tests in 2024.

2-year project w/ @AirbusDefence @infoGMV @DLR_en & AES Tech

👉https://eda.europa.eu/news-and-events/news/2022/12/21/eda-begins-research-into-automatic-air-to-air-refuelling

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUDefenceAgency/status/1605567628143108096

📷 EDA Chief Exec, Jiří Šedivý, met @ACWLapsley, NATO Assistant SG for #NDPP.

They discussed:
➡️ensuring coherence of output between #NDPP & #CDP
➡️enhancing staff cooperation 🤝

#JointDeclaration #EUNATO #Defence

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUDefenceAgency/status/1604786510590382081

.@EUDefenceAgency Chief Executive, Jiri Sedivy, spoke to @Reuters on #EUdefence cooperation.

#StrongerTogether #EUCO #Defence
RT @Reuters: European Union states should buy arms jointly to replenish stocks after supplying Ukraine, said the bloc's defence agency, warning the United States may not always be able to shield Europe from threats https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-defence-agency-chief-europe-cannot-rely-us-alone-shield-2022-12-16/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=twitter

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUDefenceAgency/status/1603757518362234885

🖊️EDA signs European Defence Fund project agreements with EU Commission @defis_eu

🇪🇺EDA will implement 2 #EDF 2021 research and development projects, on radar technologies & ballistic protection.

2 projects also signed by #OCCAR, totalling €190m

#EUdefence #EUDefenceIndustry

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUDefenceAgency/status/1602979564896108544

Plan, develop, invest, share.

This week marks 5 years since the launch of #PESCO

Today, 60 projects are ongoing across all military domains.

Key PESCO dates👇 #EUdefence
RT @EUDefenceAgency: 🎂5 years of PESCO

11 December 2017 @EUCouncil, EU leaders established permanent structured cooperation

#OTD 25 participating states signed up to 20 more binding commitments to jointly plan, develop & invest in shared capability projects.

Check out some key #PESCO dat…

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUDefenceAgency/status/1602335719862816772

RT @JosepBorrellF: Five years ago #PESCO was launched.

To deepen defence cooperation among EU Member States and to develop more critical defence capabilities.

Today, Member States are working together on 60 common PESCO projects.

https://www.pesco.europa.eu/

#EUDefence #StrategicCompass

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUDefenceAgency/status/1602247161177161728

RT @KristaSaloFI: 5️⃣ years of #PESCO 🎂
🔹 25 🇪🇺 participating Member States
🔸 20 binding commitments
🔹60 projects: land, maritime, air, cyber, training, and joint enablers
🔸5th wave of project proposals ongoing

More information:

💻 https://www.pesco.europa.eu/

🗞️https://eda.europa.eu/webzine/issue24 pp: 30-33

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUDefenceAgency/status/1602013350342578176

RT @JosepBorrellF: Data from @EUDefenceAgency show Europeans are spending more on defence. Now we must also spend better and cooperate more. To support Ukraine, address urgent needs, and prepare for the future. My new blog post on #EUDefence:
https://www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/investing-more-together-europe%E2%80%99s-defence_en

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUDefenceAgency/status/1602005302886699008