February 2012 – B2 Brussels2 Logbook

(B2) The two ministers of defence, Belgian and Dutch, Pieter De Crem and Hans Hillen, took advantage of their

The Parliament calls out the institutions on piracy: what are you doing?

(BRUSSELS2) The European Parliament has decided to raise the issue of maritime piracy by putting a question to the authorities

(B2) Half a dozen countries – Croatia, Macedonia/Fyrom, Montenegro, Iceland (candidate countries), Albania, Norway, Liechtenstein

(BRUSSELS2) For several days, placed under observation near the Somali coast, the Danish frigate Absalon – aided by planes from

(B2) Seven Syrian government ministers today came to join the blacklist banning them from staying and freezing their

(BRUXELLES2) It's a rather taboo subject in European aisles. And when you put the question to a French diplomat,

(B2) The European Union announced today that it has extended its financial assistance to the Peacebuilding Mission in

(B2) The Costa Allegra, this cruise ship from the Costa company, which is drifting off the coast of the Seychelles after a

(BRUXELLES2) This is not the end of the Polish Navy, no doubt. But it is the end of certain ambitions surely.

(B2) The Dutch Lynx helicopter from HMS Trump captured by Colonel Gaddafi's Libyan forces in February 2011 will be