"The European"

The Magazine for Europe’s Security and Defence Community
A product of the Behörden Spiegel, edited and published by Hartmut Bühl

The European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) has an outstanding importance for the development of Europe, and the European Union has significant influence on the world’s security.

EU Security Strategy (ESS) and Crisis Management

Throughout the crises with Iran on nuclear security, peace negotiations in the Middle East, the settlement of the Georgia conflict and the energy crisis between Russia and Ukraine, Europe has shown its political, civil and military capabilities to resolve conflicts. The European Union stands on the side of the United Nations in Africa as a partner for peace and has close links to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. In Kosovo EU-Civil Forces are cooperating shoulder-to-shoulder with NATO-Forces.

Structures and Capabilities

In order to strengthen its security and defence capacities the European Union has created common structures, e.g. the EUMS, the Military Staff, EUROPOL, the police organization, and FRONTEX, the common organization for border security. The successful missions in the Congo and in Chad prove that EU has become in practice an important player in global security, especially in the fields of peace keeping and humanitarian support. To realize the objectives of the new requirements of the European Security Strategy for more robust forces, new structures are to be developed, civil and military forces have to be transformed and a much deeper cooperation with NATO is necessary. The new Magazine is accompanying these new developments.

Industrial Base and Technology

Referring to Europe’s new role in the global security architecture, the technical equipment of European Forces is of major importance. Technology research for civil and military equipment has to be strengthened and civil and military forces have to become more interoperable, more standardized, more flexible and more transportable. Security and defence industries contributing to the ESDP find their platform for discussion in this magazine.

Wide Distribution Network

The magazine, with a running publication of 12.000 copies, is published in Brussels and Berlin. Hartmut Bühl, the Correspondent and Head of the Behörden Spiegel Office in Brussels, is aiming to make this magazine into a discussion platform on the political and strategic level for the ESDP. European Institutions, authorities of the member states and the security and defence circles in Europe are the pillars of the distribution network, in which the ministries of Defence, Interior, Disaster Management and Foreign Affairs are in the focus.

Community Building

The ProPress Publishing Group, as the publishing house of the Magazine, also hosts the three of the most important yearly European conferences for civil protection, the “European Congress on Disaster Management” for civil protection, the “European Police Congress” and the “Congress on European Security and Defence” for armed and civil forces. Within the last years, these conferences established community building for all addressed parties, coming from 70 states.

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Europe has voted

Non-voters now make up an absolute majority in Europe. In the midst of one of the most serious economic and financial crises in recent history, Europeans across the 27 Member States have elected their Parliament – if it can be called that, since only 43% of eligible voters bothered to go to the polls. Though the difficult times have made it abundantly clear that the EU offers the way out of the crisis, Europeans apparently don’t get it. And instead of pointing the citizenry in the right direction, the politicians harped on national issues – sending the message that when it comes to dealing with genuinely important matters, the EU is useless. Nothing could be further from the truth. The European Crisis What was lacking in the run-up to the election was a stirring phrase – something on the order of the resounding lead-in to Thomas Paine’s since-famous essay “The American Crisis”*: “These are the times that try men´s souls.” Where was the European politician with the charisma to get away with such a statement? And where was the European politician with the mettle to make it? There are a number of obvious and weighty reasons for the election debacle:

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• The electorate cannot make head or tail of the European Union’s institutional machinery; and Member State governments do not have the gumption to introduce policies that would make the vital importance of the EU clear to their citizens.
• The neo-liberal approach to the common market threatens to overwhelm the principles of solidarity and fraternity. The result is that citizens tend to place their trust in national governments rather than in faceless Brussels.
• The enlargement process sends the message that Europe has virtually no borders – a proposition that fails to attract support; and the confusing and emotional debate about accession negotiations with Turkey has unsettled Europe’s citizens even further.

* Published in the Pennsylvania Journal on December 19, 1776, the essay reverberated across the colonies and the vastly outnumbered American troops went on to win a brilliant victory over the British.

Overhaul the campaign

The European Parliament election campaign must be completely overhauled. Before the next election, the citizen must be freed from his institutionally-imposed immaturity (to paraphrase Kant). He must be offered something with which he can identify. The citizen should be told how Europe might look once it is “finished”. It should be brought home to him that a combined effort is essential if we are to address such global threats as climate change, energy security and terrorism. And it should be impressed upon him that a supranational approach is crucial if such projects as the creation of European armed forces and European police forces – projects that bring Europe together – are to succeed. It should be explained to the citizen that the European Parliament is the custodian of a European federal state that for the time being exists only as a concept, so that there is no reason for the citizen to fear for his national identity. It should likewise be explained that Parliament checks and balances the decisions taken by the other Brussels institutions, with the power to approve the budget and substantial influence over the selection of members of the Commission.

The Lisbon Treaty- the MEPs and the citizens

The MEP must be freed from anonymity and become a face familiar to the public at large. Supranational election lists would be a good start. The next European election campaign should begin now, not a ludicrous two months ahead of time. And what about forcing the parties to commit to their candidates for the Commission prior to the election? The Lisbon Treaty will strengthen the European Parliament; but the European Parliament has not yet been brought closer to the citizen.

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Publisher and Editor-in-Chief: Hartmut Bühl Publishing House: ProPress Verlagsgesellschaft mbH President ProPress Publishing Group: R. Uwe Proll E-Mail: magazine@euro-defence.eu Layout: SpreeService- und Beratungsgesellschaft mbH Print: Heider Druck GmbH, Bergisch Gladbach The European − Security and Defence Union Magazine is published quarterly by the ProPress Publishing Group in Brussels and Berlin. The ProPress Publishing Group is the organizer of the congress on European Security and Defence (Berliner Sicherheitskonferenz), the European Police Congress and the European Congress on Disaster Management. Issue price: 16 Euro. Subscription (4 issues): Subscription international: 88 Euro for 4 issues including postage and dispatch Subscription EU: 56 Euro for 4 issues including postage and dispatch © 2009 by ProPress Publishing Group Bonn/Berlin

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Editorial

POLICY & POLITICS NATO at 60 – work ahead Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Secretary General NATO, Brussels The future of ESDP – ways to improve European Security and Defence Policy Dr. Clemens von Goetze, German PSC Ambassador, Brussels The European Parliament's, real influence on the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) Elmar Brok, Brussels The ESDA, the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) and the Lisbon Treaty Robert Walter MP, President of the European Security and Defence Assembly (ESDA)/Assembly of the WEU, London/Paris EU Military Staff and ESDP – a work in progress Lieutenant General David Leakey, Director General EU Milstaff, Brussels Working together, thinking differently – Cooperation amongst EU officials in ESDP missions Dr. Vasilis Margaras, Center for European Studies(CEPS), Brussels EU-NATO Commentary, Burying the hatchet in the EU-NATO turf war Giles Merritt, Director Security & Defence Agenda (SDA), Brussels Balkans The role and contribution of Macedonia in Stabilizing the Balkans Antonio Milososki, Foreign Minister of Macedonia, Skopje What Europe should do for the stability in the Balkans – the human factor Doris Pack MEP, Brussels Russia in the Balkans − traditional influence versus western interests Dr. Milos Solaya, Director CIR, Banja Luka SECURITY A European energy policy for the 21st century Andris Piebalg, Commissioner for Energy, Brussels Cyber defence – the Estonian Experience and how Europe can protect its societies Tarmo K˜outs MP, Vice Admiral (R), Tallin Cyber Security – the Industry point of view Bert Weingarten, PAN AMP AG, Hamburg Can Industries take the lead in filling the gap between Defence and Governments' Security Luc van de Winckel, Brussels

EUROPEAN DEFENCE and ARMED FORCES Improving NATO'S expditionary Capabilities Jirí Šedivý, Ambassador, Assistant Secretary General for Defence Policy and Planning, NATO, Brussels Addressing Helicopter Shortage: EDA’s role Andrew Gray, Helicopter Project Officer, European Defence Agency, Brussels INDUSTRIES Internal market for the EU’s defence and security industries by 2012 Günter Verheugen, European Commission Vice President responsible for enterprise and industry policy , Brussels Airbus strives for open cometition Interview with Dr. Thomas Enders, CEO Airbus Industries, Toulouse The Role of Industries in the Provision of Secure Information Infrastructures for NATO and EU Ingo Juraske, Vice President Hewlett Packard, EMEA, Böblingen INSTITUTIONS and ASSOCIATIONS The European Parliament’s role in the EU decision-making process Christoph Raab, Managing Director, COPURA, Brussels   DEFENCE & SECURITY NEWS ESDP and NATO News European Union (EU) North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) List of authors and articles published in former editions

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