The EEAS adjusts its politico-military organization
(BRUSSELS2) A new organization chart is being drawn up at the European diplomatic service (EEAS). Or more precisely a development that will concern security and defense structures. Thus the units in charge of security and conflict prevention (currently under the direction of Me Damanaki) could be made available to Maciej Popowski, the Deputy Secretary General of the EEAS, who follows all security policies. This will allow better synergy with the other elements of the European security and defense policy: EU General Staff (military) and OpsCenter, CMPD (planning) and CPCC (civilian mission command*).
The SitCen (situation centre) has been split up. The monitoring and on-call structure – the EU Situation room – is now placed under the direct responsibility of the director of the Crisis Response Department, Agostino Miozzo. The rest of the service has been renamed IntCen – Intelligence Analysis Centre – and refocused, as its name suggests, on intelligence and situation analysis (often from open or semi-open sources). It remains headed by the Finnish Ilkka Salmi.
Everything should be accompanied – following part of the conclusions of General de Kermabon – by a reorganization of these structures with a refinement of functions, particularly between the CMPD – which will refocus on planning (in the medium or long term). , so-called strategic planning) of military or civil missions, its primary role – and the CPCC – the Union's civil operations command, which will further ensure the planning (short-term, operational), conduct and management of civil missions .
Comment: This is not a general overhaul. After two years of European diplomatic service, a more significant reorganization would have been logical, to allow the establishment of a large "peacekeeping and crisis management" department bringing together both civilians and military, planning and operations, conflict prevention and management... a European-style DPKO**, so to speak. Perhaps that will be for later. But at some point, it will be necessary to put aside personal or state interests and create this new structure that would thus give visibility and clarity to the European Common Security and Defense Policy (CSDP), which suffers from a number of abstruse and inappropriate acronyms.
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** United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations
Download a recent organization chart of the European Diplomatic Service (EEAS): B2 Docs