In CSDP radio silence missions and operations
(B2) It is relatively surprising. Usually when a public action is launched with a noble objective — ensuring the maintenance of peace, the security of Europeans, consolidating the rule of law — it is natural, customary, and even polite, to come from time to time in front of the press, which represents European public opinion, to report, explain, detail, the results, the difficulties, the evolutions of these missions. For the CSDP, that era seems to be over.
Heads of CSDP missions and operations who pass through Brussels, do so on the sly, hide from the media, even refuse to give interviews to the media (even 'off'). This is quite surprising because these missions and operations act in the name of the European Union, with an official mandate, and public funding. This is completely contrary to their mandate, issued officially.
This is the case today for Admiral Enrico Credendino, who was before the Political and Security Committee of the EU (PSC) to report on his mission, but above all to defend a sensitive project: the setting up of within the operation of an anti-crime unit, responsible for collecting all possible information and exchanging it with other European agencies (such as Frontex or Europol). It is true that the passage in front of the media would have forced him to answer very delicate questions...
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