Defence : Big ambitions, modest results

The crises in Ukraine and Syria have done little to prompt progress in defence matters since the decisions taken at the European Council in December 2013. Starting from this gloomy conclusion, the SecDef14 conference (Security and Defence Day, this conference was organised by CEIS and the Egmont Institute for International Relations in partnership with Europolitics) on 4 December in Brussels, attempted to find some solutions. However, the views of the French, German and British experts differed widely - even more…