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In the margins of the 3rd Defence & Security Conference, EDA Chief Executive Jiří Šedivý met with Todor Tagarev Minister of Defence of Bulgaria. 🇧🇬
Very good exchange on a broad set of defence matters such as R&D, cyber, joint procurement & PESCO.
#EUdefence #StrongerTogether
🛡️ The second and final segment of the 3rd #EuropeanDefenceSecurityConf has officially concluded!
🤝 A heartfelt thank you to all our speakers and audience, and to our Partners, without whom this Conference would not have been possible.
➡ See you next year!
'Strategic autonomy is about choosing dependencies wisely.'
Major General Johann Frank wrapped up the 3rd #EuropeanDefenceSecurityConf with a call for EU to increase its hard power within the more general framework of EU's foreign policy.
A strategy for defence and an investment programme are needed to avoid under-investment and increase assertiveness.
Urmas Paet, Timo Pesonen, Amb. Andrea Orizio, Fincantieri's Pierroberto Folgiero and Indra's David Luengo discussed the way forward for 🇪🇺 defence.
Autonomous access to space and the protection of critical infrastructure are critical to guarantee EU's strategic autonomy 🛡️🛰️
🇪🇺 DG DEFIS #StrongerTogether's Catherine Kavvada, European External Action Service - EEAS 🇪🇺' Carine Clays, ArianeGroup's Martin Sion and OHB's Markus Moeller discussed the link between space and security.
Cooperation with NATO is essential for interoperability and standardisation, as well as knowledge-sharing
Amb Muriel Domenach, Benedikta von Seherr-Thoss and @Jean-Francois Morizur delved further into EU-NATO relations.
#EuropeanDefenceSecurityConf
'Space-based services are increasingly relevant for security missions. How do we secure such assets?'
👉An example is the Galileo Security Monitoring Centre.
Rodrigo da Costa, Executive Director of 🇪🇺 EUSPA - EU Agency for the Space Programme intervened on how the EU is (and is planning on securing its space assets.
The EU and NATO can both complement one another and act in synergy 👇
NATO's DSG Mircea Geoana and Dutch Minister of Defence Kajsa Ollongren discussed the way forward to counter symmetrical and asymmetrical threats menacing the continent's security.
#EuropeanDefenceSecurityConf
The 🇪🇺 is stepping up its ability to prevent, detect and respond to cyber and hybrid threats. To do so, it is taking a regulatory and operational approach.
The second half of the conference kicked off with a conversation with VP Margaritis Schinas and RHEA Group's COO Pascal Rogiest.
The first segment of the conference comes to a close!
The event will resume at 14.30. Stay tuned 🛡️
#EuropeanDefenceSecurityConf
Innovation in #AI , #space and #quantum technology requires a dynamic industrial ecosystem of both large and small companies 👇
Kris Peeters, Nynke Tigchelaar, Juan Tomás Hernani, André Baptista, and Jaume Sanpera @Sateliot discussed 🇪🇺 funding to defence start-ups.
#Cassini #DefenceIndustry
Europe is perceived as a block, and it needs to act as a block 👇
In the second panel of the day, Jiri Sedivy, François Arbault and Pierre-Eric Pommellet addressed how national spending without cooperation is no longer enough to guarantee the consolidation of the 🇪🇺 #DefenceIndustry .
In the first session, moderated by Daniel Fiott, panellists Charles Fries, Stephen Banable, Eric Béranger and Antoine Bouvier touched on the need to build on current initiatives to create long-term policy instruments to enhance 🇪🇺defence industry & anticipate common threats.
What a way to kickstart the 3rd #EuropeanDefenceSecurityConf !
Commissioner Thierry Breton, 🇧🇪 Minister of Defence Ludivine Dedonder and HRVP Josep Borrell Fontelles opened the conference by focussing on the need to increase 🇪🇺 defence readiness and availability.
#EDF #EDIRPA #ASAP #ASAP