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Nov 4, 2024 | 
ecfr.eu | Laurence Boone |Nicu Popescu
Policy Brief 1 November 2024 The European Union today is in a hybrid situation: its states are at peace, but war roils its neighbourhood, hybrid threats stalk its territory, and other major crises from pandemics to the effects of global heating threaten its population. These pose war-like industrial and infrastructural demands. Too often, conventional peacetime processes still prevail. Both the Covid-19 pandemic and Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine saw the union improvise its way to...
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
ecfr.eu | Laurence Boone |Nicu Popescu
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
ft.com | Laurence Boone
The writer is a former French minister of state for Europe In the European parliament elections of 2014, France’s Socialist and...
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Jun 21, 2024 | 
lemonde.fr | Laurence Boone
Une tâche complexe attend le gouvernement qui sortira des urnes le 7 juillet, quel qu’il soit. Le cadre budgétaire européen, révisé fin 2023, et les règles budgétaires communes, levées pendant la crise liée au Covid-19 et modernisées depuis, s’appliquent de nouveau.
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Jun 19, 2024 | 
ft.com | Laurence Boone
The writer is a former French minister of state for Europe If the result of the European elections in France turned democratic life...
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
euronews.com | Laurence Boone |Nicu Popescu
Jean Monnet is remembered for having invented a smart technocratic gimmick – integrating the steel and coal industries of former enemies as the best way to ensure stable peace on the European continent. His technocratic method helped create the EU. Now, as the EU prepares for future enlargements to the Balkans and East — with the bloc aiming to start membership negotiations with Ukraine and Moldova by the end of June — geopolitical and even military integration should take centre stage.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
malaysia.news.yahoo.com | Laurence Boone |Nicu Popescu
Laurence Boone, Nicu Popescu, ECFR5 June 2024 at 3:59 am·4-min readJean Monnet is remembered for having invented a smart technocratic gimmick – integrating the steel and coal industries of former enemies as the best way to ensure stable peace on the European continent. His technocratic method helped create the EU.
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Apr 28, 2024 | 
aspistrategist.org.au | Laurence Boone |Nicu Popescu
The European Union’s spending rules and public-procurement processes are plainly inadequate to the threat posed by Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. If the World War II Allies had been subject to such strictures, they would have been unable to buy landing craft for the invasion of Normandy in 1944, equip General Charles de Gaulle’s Free French Army, or issue war bonds in time.
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
qoshe.com | Laurence Boone |Nicu Popescu
Laurence BoonePARIS – The European Union’s spending rules and public-procurement processes are plainly inadequate to the threat posed by Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. If the World War II Allies had been subject to such strictures, they would have been unable to buy landing boats for the invasion of Normandy for a landing in 1944, equip General Charles de Gaulle’s Free French Army, or issue war bonds in time.
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
koreatimes.co.kr | Laurence Boone |Nicu Popescu
By Laurence Boone and Nicu PopescuPARIS – The European Union’s spending rules and public-procurement processes are plainly inadequate to the threat posed by Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. If the World War II Allies had been subject to such strictures, they would have been unable to buy landing boats for the invasion of Normandy for a landing in 1944, equip General Charles de Gaulle’s Free French Army, or issue war bonds in time.
