EDN - European Defence Network

🚀 Kicking Off the EDN Seminar in Brussels with ASD! 🇪🇺 Our first stop: the Aerospace, Security and Defence Industries Association of Europe (ASD) For two hours, the EDN engaged in insightful discussions with: 🔹 Benedikt Weingärtner, Communication Manager, on the challenges of public communication in the European defence industry. 🔹 Burkard Schmitt, Security and Defence Director, on the latest developments in European defence and how to turn political will into concrete action. It was a candid and thought-provoking exchange - setting the perfect tone for our seminar! ASD plays a crucial role in shaping the Aerospace, Security, and Defence industry, representing: ✅ 25 major European companies ✅ 22 National Associations ✅ Over 4,000 companies across 20 European countries ✅ A workforce of 921,000 people As a key voice in European defence policy and industry cooperation, ASD actively supports the sector’s competitive growth in Europe and beyond. A huge thank you for welcoming us and making our seminar come to life! Looking forward to the next steps. #EuropeanDefence #Aerospace #Security #DefenceIndustry #Collaboration #EDNSeminar

EDN - European Defence Network at the heart of European policy-making! Our defence seminar in #Brussels just ended, and with it 3 amazing days on the future of #EuropeanDefence policies. ➡️A very timely event, just after the White Paper release and the European Council on European Defence. ➡️Passionate and diverse participants - 34 students and young professionals  - from the industry, MoDs, armed forces,  - representing 11 countries ➡️Meeting with European actors for a 360° perspective: - Industry actors: Aerospace, Security and Defence Industries Association of Europe (ASD), European Defence Agency - Policy makers: with General Christophe Gomart, MEP and Guillaume de La Brosse, Head of Unit at DG DEFIS - Diplomats: with Polish and Danish representatives to the EU in the frame of the EU presidency  - Think tankers: Sebastian Clapp, Ionela Maria Ciolan, Mihai Chihaia hosted by the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) Europe This is what the EDN - European Defence Network is all about - bringing together actors of today and tomorrow to shape the future of security and defense. Hope everyone had a great experience, and see you next time! 📶 Stay tuned for more detailed insights, coming soon! #Security #Defence #NextGen #MeetLearnDebate #DefenceIndustry #WhitePaper

🎬Rolling back to the Paris Defence and Strategy Forum which took place last week on the amazing stage of the French #EcoleMilitaire, and organised by the 🇫🇷 Académie de défense de l'École militaire! Members of the EDN had again the opportunity to attend thanks to the #ESDA association. 🎤🔎3 days of intense strategic thinking and of course debate in the different rooms of the Forum, where senior defence officials took the mike: ➡️ 🇫🇷 - Sébastien Lecornu, Jean-Noël Barrot, Emmanuel Chiva, Cedric Perrin, ... ➡️ but also 🇪🇺 - Andrius Kubilius, Ruben Brekelmans, @jean-paul duckers... and 🇺🇸 Joseph Nye Among the essential debates on the future of transatlantic relations and how #Europe could do more for its #defence, many messages about how to engage the society and its youth in this effort were also heard. ❔Maybe an international #YouthPanel next year to investigate accelerating on this crucial topic? We stand ready! 🚀 Anne Muxel Nicolas Brault markus rihs Erik Noordam 💡In the meantime, get a touch of our delegation's feedback and insights in the video below! ⤵️ And we leave you with the words of Vincent Giraud, 🇫🇷 Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff, closing the forum: "Crises are now overlapping without cancelling each other". "Faced with the acceleration of the world, we need to trust in our values, and in ourselves. I call all of us to take risks. " Loud and clear, General!🫡 María Gracia Moreno Vegas Sofía Peleteiro Elias Ricken Brice Lefebvre

🚪Enter with us on day 1️⃣ of the Paris Defence and Strategy Forum 2025! #PDSF25 This is the 2nd edition of this international security conference at #EcoleMilitaire in Paris! And an occasion to enter into multiple topics🎙️ with international leaders and experts: ➡️Industrial cooperation 🤝 in a time of uncertainty, with representatives from Arquus, MBDA, Airbus and IRIS - Institut de relations internationales et stratégiques ➡️Europe's strategic autonomy 💪 with Benjamin Haddad, David Behar from 🇫🇷 Min. of Foreign Affairs ➡️Disinformation 😶🌫️, satellites constellations in intelligence, and many more topics addressing every field! But most and foremost, this conference is meant as a vector of France #StrategicThinking in #Europe. With this year 4000 participants from all the world, it's a unique opportunity to foster international dialogue and mutual understanding! The right spot for the EDN - European Defence Network. Getting ready for Day 2️⃣!

📣The EDN - European Defence Network seminar is Brussels is now happening from March 23rd to 25th! ❔You did not hear about it in February, as initially planned? No worries, the seminar was simply postponed due to conflicting agendas 📆 as Sofía Peleteiro, our HO Communication, is explaining. ⤵️ 🧍🧍We now have 35 participants from all Europe on-boarded for 3 amazing days of discussions, learning, and reflections on #EUDefence. And with all happening these last weeks, no doubt that everyone will be eager to deep-dive into the role of #EuropeanUnion institutions to face the coming challenges. We will tell you more soon! #EuroDef #NextGen #EDNSeminar

📶 Our February NewsFeed is available! 🚀 Current times, where one news is chased by another bigger the next day, does not help to look at events with a cool head. So let's go briefly backwards and overlook at February's defense news! 🔭 On the menu: 1️⃣ A focus 🔎 on the intense diplomacy and strategy discussions around the MSC in Europe 2️⃣ Industry 🏭: 🇵🇹 and 🇦🇱 entering SkyShield - EDA Chief calling to end bational preference - EDA innovation campaign 3️⃣ Cooperation and operations 🪖: a 3rd NATO Airbase in 🇳🇴 - biggest 2025 NATO exercise in 🇧🇬 4️⃣ International relations🕸️: Impact of the 🇩🇪 elections on defence posture - 🇺🇸🇺🇦 minerals deal 5️⃣ European policies 🇪🇺: impact on ground of Mirage-2000 & F-16s deliveries to 🇺🇦 ----- Our NewsFeed is a monthly press digest of the main news on European Defence. Stay tuned! 📻 Prepared by: Tom Körner Keso Gigitashvili Carola Picconi Genoveva Díez Martín Brice Lefebvre

📶 Our January NewsFeed is available! 🚀2025 is getting off to a flying start, so no time to lose if you want to keep up on European Defence topics. 🔭 On the menu: 1️⃣ A focus 🔎 on NATO mission to counter Russia's shadow fleet in the Baltics 2️⃣ Industry 🏭: 🇫🇷 and 🇳🇴 sign a bilateral cooperation on hybrid threats 3️⃣ Cooperation and operations 🪖: 🇸🇪 deploys troops to Latvia through NATO - 🇵🇱 and 🇬🇧 sign a defence agreement 4️⃣ International relations🕸️: 5% GDP spending on defence as a new target? - All eyes on Greenland and the Artic 5️⃣ European policies 🇪🇺: EDA and the 🇪🇺 Commission progress for a green defence sector ----- Our NewsFeed is a monthly press digest of the main news on European Defence. Stay tuned! 📻 Prepared by: Genoveva Díez Martín Tom Körner Elias Ricken Keso Gigitashvili

📣The EDN - European Defence Network organizes its next youth seminar in #Brussels, from March 24th to 25th! 🔎Join us for this amazing opportunity to delve into EU policy-making in #EUDefence with EU decision-makers and analysts, while meeting with like-minded young people from all over #Europe! 📅Enjoy a high-level programme to grasp the orientations of the next 5 years mandate with a full day dedicated to 🇪🇺 institutions: ➡️discussions with Members of European Parliament, ➡️debates with think tanks, ➡️an evening conference gathering the 1st Vice-Chair of the #SEDE committee, General C. Gomart, together with a representative from DG DEFIS The other day will extend the discussion with the Aerospace, Security and Defence Industries Association of Europe (ASD), the European Defence Agency to cover the industrial declination of EU policies, and the current and coming EU presidencies! 👨👩 If you are a citizen from the European Union or a neighbor country, aged from 18 to 35: ➡️subscribe now: https://lnkd.in/etYzaeGS ➡️or contact us at info@e-d-n.eu for more details! ⚙️All expenses except travel to Brussels will be covered by our partners: ➡️General Christophe Gomart's office ➡️Aerospace, Security and Defence Industries Association of Europe (ASD) The subscription fee is refundable until Jan. 19th. See you there! #EUPolicies #EUNextGen #YouthSeminar

🎄Christmas is almost there! But at the EDN, we are always a bit ahead, so here is already our present 🎁 for you: our December NewsFeed! 🔭 On the menu: 1️⃣ A focus 🔎 on the inaugural speech of Mark Rutte, the new NATO Secretary General 2️⃣ Industry 🏭: the latest SIPRI report on European Defence Industry's revenue - Hybrid train innovation for military mobility by the European Defence Agency 3️⃣ Cooperation and operations 🪖: NATO's Largest Cyber Defense Exercise #CyberCoalition2024 4️⃣ International relations🕸️: Sweden 🇸🇪 & Poland 🇵🇱 strategic partnership to face #BalticSea insecurity - Call for setting NATO target defence spending to 3% GDP 5️⃣ European policies 🇪🇺: Kubilius Andrius unveils first orientations on EU defence #WhitePaper - Programme of Poland’s EU Presidency 2025 ----- Our #NewsFeed is a monthly press digest of the main news on #EuropeanDefence. Stay tuned! 📻 Prepared by: Carola Picconi Genoveva Díez Martín Keso Gigitashvili Tom Körner Brice Lefebvre

🌐Visit to the Berlin Security Conference! By invitation of the ESDA*, members of the EDN both from Berlin & our Steering Committee had the occasion to attend the 2024 Berlin Security Conference #BSC last week! ▶️ As usual, an enriching programme at the heart of EU's and NATO's defence challenges, with the inspiring Estonia 🇪🇪 as partner nation ▶️ And the occasion to meet with other youth associations part of the ESDA network to stimulate youth engagement on these topics! Les Jeunes IHEDN EuroDefense Jovem (AEE-EDJP) 💡Short insights to grasp the atmosphere and trends in 🇪🇺 defence: - Kubilius Andrius, at the eve of its confirmation by the EU Parliament, called for a "big-bang" 💥 approach for EU defence with aggregated requirements & common procurement - MEP Riho Terras stressed that the EU support to Ukraine amounts per inhabitant to 1.5 cups of coffee a month ☕ - doing more is a matter of political will - Estonia is expecting the EU Defence White Paper 📝 to define a clear role for the EU in case of crisis, as a starting point for further ambition - NATO military chairman Rob Bauer, Admiral RNLN emphasized from Ukraine's feedback that "mud and blood" 🪖 is still a part of modern warfare and basics are still necessary alongside technological advantage Special thanks to the ESDA and especially Colin CAMERON for offering us again amazing opportunities to interact with today's leaders in European Defence! *ESDA is the inter-parliamentary European Security & Defence Association (ESDA/AESD)