October 29, 2008 – B2 Brussels2 Logbook

(B2) The European Commission will launch a study on piracy off the coast of Somalia. The objective is to capture the

A Swedish general, future head of the EU military committee

(B2) It is the Swedish Chief of Staff, a navy man, General Håkan Erik Gunnar Syrén, who will take over

(B2) Is this an effect of the Franco-British initiative to increase the availability of European helicopters? Or a return to ancestral tradition

(B2) This is of course only a possibility for the moment. But it is currently at the heart of certain scenarios of the French presidency.