November 2011 – B2 Brussels2 Logbook

(B2) The Assize Court for Minors in Paris (*) finally delivered a rather lenient verdict towards the six pirates

Athena mechanism overhaul fails

(BRUSSELS2 – Council of Defense Ministers) There will be no progress on the revision of the Athena mechanism (*).

(BRUSSELS2) The budget of the European Defense Agency will not increase in 2012. Inflation will not be taken into account.

(BRUXELLES2) Pooling and sharing, a fine project whose contours have until now been caressed in a literary way. The council meeting

(BRUXELLES2) “Integrate more or die” is the slogan of Radoslaw Sikorski, in an important speech delivered yesterday evening in Berlin.

(BRUSSELS2) The bi-annual meeting of EU Defense Ministers opens this afternoon, with dinner tonight at

(BRUSSELS2) In any case, this is the wish of General H. Syren, the EU Chief of Staff, and more generally of the

(B2) Latvian Defense Minister Artis Pabriks repeated this before the meeting of 27 Defense Ministers,

(BRUSSELS2) The commander of the EU anti-piracy operation can be satisfied. It has an additional on-board protection team.