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The 2nd European defense talks. It's May 16

(B2) The second talks on European defense will be devoted this year to one theme: towards a European army?

With a question mark (subject of a long debate between the organizers ;-).

It is at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Amphi 3 (12, place du Panthéon, Paris 5th), Thursday, May 16, 2019, from 8:30 a.m. to 18 p.m.

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8:30 a.m. Opening. Jolyon Howorth – professor emeritus Harvard Kennedy School

9 a.m. Panel 1: deciphering the news and the context of European defense

Nicolas Gros-Verheyde, Brussels2

Mayeul Kauffmann, CESICE/University of Grenoble Alpes

Claudia Major, SWP (Berlin)

Jean-Pierre Maulny, IRIS (Paris)

Federico Santopinto, GRIP (Brussels)

10 a.m. Major interview: the current contours of the revival of European defense

Louis Gautier, former Secretary General for Defense and National Security (SGDSN), University of Paris I, Chair of Major Contemporary Strategic Issues

Moderator: Stéphane Rodrigues – University of Paris I – IREDIES – Sorbonne War Studies

11 a.m. Panel 2: A European army, what for?

Moderator: Edouard Simon (Confrontations Europe)

Brigadier General Bertrand Toujouse, Euratlantique Directorate, Armed Forces Staff

Brigadier General Jean-Philippe Ganascia, former Force Chief of Staff (FHQ) of EUFOR TCHAD

Frédéric Mauro, lawyer at the Paris and Brussels Bars

14 p.m. Panel 3: What equipment for the European army?

Moderator: Fanny Coulomb (CESICE, Sciences po Grenoble)

Antoine Bouvier, Chairman and CEO of MBDA

Laurent Brisset, vice-president of the MSIPP Sorbonne – Defense association

Pierre Delsaux, Deputy Director General, DG GROW, European Commission

Dirk Hoke, President of Airbus Defense & Space

André Loesekrug-Pietri, President of JEDI

16 p.m. Panel 4: What political and institutional framework for the European army?

Moderator: Olivier de France (IRIS)

Ana Gomes, MEP (S&D, Portugal)

Françoise Grossetête, Member of the European Parliament (EPP, France)

Zdzisław Krasnodębski, MEP (ECR, Poland), rapporteur on the European Defense Fund (FEDef)

17:30 p.m. Fence with Jean-Paul Palomeros, Former Chief of Staff of the French Air Force, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander for Transformation

Georges Haddad, President of the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

Nicolas Gros Verheyde

Chief editor of the B2 site. Graduated in European law from the University of Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne and listener to the 65th session of the IHEDN (Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Défense Nationale. Journalist since 1989, founded B2 - Bruxelles2 in 2008. EU/NATO correspondent in Brussels for Sud-Ouest (previously West-France and France-Soir).

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