European Defence Agency @EUDefenceAgency@respublicae.eu

📖 | Today, Chief Exec, Jiří Šedivý met with @EP_Defence members to discuss the main recommendations of CARD, the #EUdefence Review;

📌 Increasing defence spending
📌 Boosting defence cooperation
📌 Developing capable & coherent 🇪🇺 defence

#StrongerTogether #EU #Europe

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EUDefenceAgency/status/1597281668699590657

⚓️Surveillance of the sea.

More than 60% of trade, 99% of digital traffic & 55% of crude oil come through 🇪🇺 maritime borders.

Maritime Situational Awareness is the foundation of #maritime security.

🔘EDA event asks what challenges & opportunities face the maritime domain?

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EUDefenceAgency/status/1597235147480436739

#PESCO moving forward

This week EDA hosted a meeting of Next Generation Small #RPAS (NGSR), 5 nation project coordinated by 🇪🇸

Discussions focused on defining common operational requirements for unmanned aerial systems.

#EUdefence

🔗https://www.pesco.europa.eu/project/next-generation-small-rpas-ngsr/

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EUDefenceAgency/status/1596109067315195906

🇳🇴EDA ChiefExec, Jiří Šedivý, visits Norway

🤝Discussions @Forsvarsdep Minister of Defence, Bjørn Arild Gram, focused on key areas of #Norway’s current participation in EDA, which spans across Agency’s activities, including contribution to 35 projects

📍https://bit.ly/3GMNKyS

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EUDefenceAgency/status/1595774531091763202

Today & tomorrow in Prague 🇨🇿 the #PESCO secretariat workshop under the auspices of @EU2022_CZ in support of 🇪🇺Member States’ efforts to maintain progress towards the fulfilment of all commitments by 2025. Discussing:
✅ Lessons
✅Best practices
✅New opportunities

#EUdefence

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EUDefenceAgency/status/1595457514836983810

On 23-24 Nov, EDA & @EU2022_CZ are holding in Prague 🇨🇿 a #PESCO workshop on #defence to discuss how to;

📌 Address challenging commitments
📌 ↗️ efforts to fulfil engagements by 2025
📌Help 🇪🇺 countries to share lessons & practices

#EU2022CZ #EUdefence #StrongerTogether

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EUDefenceAgency/status/1595424328258125834

📍 EDA begins the week in #Norway

Chief Executive, Jiří Šedivý, is in #Oslo to meet🇳🇴Minister of Defence, Bjørn Arild Gram.

Also with🇳🇴National Armaments Director, & Committee on Foreign Affairs & Defence.

ℹ️🇳🇴signed EDA's 1st admin arrangement in 2006.

📷@Forsvaret_no

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EUDefenceAgency/status/1594722402877034496

RT @EUDefenceAgency: Maritime situational awareness is a key tenet of naval warfare 🌊

A common recognised maritime picture, shared awareness & early warning will help 🇪🇺 Member States to deliver on information superiority.

Today EDA held its 1st Symposium on Maritime Situational Awareness.
🧵

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EUDefenceAgency/status/1594641823854727168

📸 EDA CheifExec, Jiří Šedivý, recently welcomed Dr. Bryan Wells, @NATO Chief Scientist to EDA.

🤝Positive exchange of views on respective defence research & #innovation efforts and building on the framework provided by the EU-NATO Joint Declaration

#EUdefence #StrongerTogether

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EUDefenceAgency/status/1594611449925701633

#EUGreenWeek | Today starts the European Week for Waste Reduction ♻️

EDA is intensifying its efforts to help 🇪🇺 countries to apply cleaner, more sustainable defence models & implement the goals of the #EUGreenDeal 🌍

Discover how 👉 https://bit.ly/3UVDUiE
#CircularEconomy

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EUDefenceAgency/status/1593881314947928065

During the meeting, EDA presented a programme aiming at;

🔹 Synchronising #defence capability development & #military cooperation in 🌊 area
🔹 Stimulating defence Research & Tech
🔹 Securing interlinks between #maritime and broader EU policies

#EUdefence #StrongerTogether

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EUDefenceAgency/status/1593630078252072961

Maritime situational awareness is a key tenet of naval warfare 🌊

A common recognised maritime picture, shared awareness & early warning will help 🇪🇺 Member States to deliver on information superiority.

Today EDA held its 1st Symposium on Maritime Situational Awareness.
🧵

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EUDefenceAgency/status/1593630074883932160

🚀EDA hosted meeting of #PESCO Project Defence of Space Assets (DoSA) this week.

Participants discussed common ambitions for #EUdefence cooperation in #space, enriching EDA Defence in Space (DiS) forum.

#StrongerTogether

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EUDefenceAgency/status/1593624734570250240

This week, #EUdefence Ministers were presented with the Coordinated Annual Review on Defence, the EU defence review.

CARD report offers
👉key strategic & political messages
👉actionable recommendations
👉options to generate collaborative projects

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EUDefenceAgency/status/1593558771095191552

CARD - collaborative opportunities in all domains.

The #EUdefence Review finds concrete opportunities in Capability Development, Research & Technology and in Operational areas.

More results from CARD👇 - https://eda.europa.eu/news-and-events/news/2022/11/15/eu-defence-review-calls-for-greater-european-cooperation-to-match-defence-spending-increases

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EUDefenceAgency/status/1592540555426246656

RT @EUDefenceAgency: The #EUdefence Review is out now.

CARD provides recommendations across defence spending, planning and cooperating in 🇪🇺

📌Repair the past by increasing defence spending
📌Prepare today by planning together for 2040
📌Win the future with a capable & coherent European defence

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EUDefenceAgency/status/1592530431433662464

The #EUdefence Review is out now.

CARD provides recommendations across defence spending, planning and cooperating in 🇪🇺

📌Repair the past by increasing defence spending
📌Prepare today by planning together for 2040
📌Win the future with a capable & coherent European defence

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EUDefenceAgency/status/1592504534185562113

#EUdefence cooperation remains the exception rather than the norm.

♠️CARD finds cooperation primarily takes place among neighbouring states in existing cooperation frameworks, while broader European collaborative approaches are usually not the preferred choice.

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EUDefenceAgency/status/1592480164747022340

RT @JosepBorrellF: Today, we assessed the EU defence landscape based on @EUDefenceAgency Coordinated Annual Review of Defence

With war back in Europe, we must move towards building a fully capable #EUdefence

The significant growth of defence spending up to €216bn is a key step in this direction

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EUDefenceAgency/status/1592471047021862912