He's right. That's the key measure that would make the difference between vague collective ambitions and credible sustained implementation. Particularly in defence. #Macron : 'Now is the time for 🇪🇺 to launch a joint borrowing capacity, through eurobonds' www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/a...

Emmanuel Macron: 'Now is the time for the European Union to launch a joint borrowing capacity, through eurobonds'

Two days ahead of a meeting of European Union heads of state and government in Brussels, the president called on the 27 member states, in an interview with Le Monde and several other European newspape...

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Fresh out of the press @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org ! @pierreharoche.bsky.social explores power–dependence state relationships through three concepts: - limitation ⛔ - neutralisation ❌ - competition 🤜🤛

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR@cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 7mo ago

#OpenAccess from @ejisbisa.bsky.social - Balancing or integrating? How power–dependence relations shape international politics - https://cup.org/45fg88u - @pierreharoche.bsky.social #FirstView

About Trump's "Board of Peace": Trump is nominally the Chairman, regardless of his role as POTUS. His term is for life, and he designates his successor. 👉This is thus an international organisation governed according to a dynastic principle. This is an empire. www.timesofisrael.com/full-text-ch...

Full text: Charter of Trump’s Board of Peace

No mention of Gaza, which bolsters ToI's reporting that US also envisions panel helping resolve other conflicts worldwide; member countries must pay $1 billion for permanent spot

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#OpenAccess from @ejisbisa.bsky.social - Balancing or integrating? How power–dependence relations shape international politics - https://cup.org/45fg88u - @pierreharoche.bsky.social #FirstView

Le contexte actuel de préparation à la #guerre 🪖 #readiness2030 donnera-t-il naissance à un État #européen 🇪🇺 ? @pierreharoche.bsky.social vous guide sur cette question jeudi à ESPOL pour sa leçon inaugurale ! 📅 15 janvier 2026 🕤 14h-16h 📍LW S122 Info & inscription 👉 espol.school/evenement/co...

Pro-Trump media beginning to advocate for war against 🇻🇪 with exactly same arguments as 🇷🇺 in 🇺🇦: it's our 'backyard', our sphere of influence, it's the Trump Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine. 👉We 🇪🇺 must reject this logic everywhere. Or we will be its next victims.

🇧🇪 already thought in the past that by distancing itself from its allies, it would be spared by the aggressor. 👉The result is that the aggressor is strengthened and 🇧🇪 is not spared at all.

Pro-Trump media beginning to advocate for war against 🇻🇪 with exactly same arguments as 🇷🇺 in 🇺🇦: it's our 'backyard', our sphere of influence, it's the Trump Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine. 👉We 🇪🇺 must reject this logic everywhere. Or we will be its next victims.

“A senior European diplomat in Beijing said China was conducting a “campaign” to court individual EU member states while blaming Brussels for strains in its relations with the bloc.” 👉 When empires blame Brussels, it means 🇪🇺 is doing its job.

‘Unbearable imbalances’ cast shadow on Emmanuel Macron’s Beijing bonhomie

French president’s visit to China highlights growing fears about existential threat to European industries

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US National Security Strategy: clear evidence & plenty of arguments why Europe needs to build fast its own Defence Independence & its own Geopolitical Independence. We have #DefenceReadiness Roadmap for our Defence Independence. We need the same for our Geopolitical Independence.

Un nouveau journal 🗞️ en ligne qui parle de la place de l’Europe 🇪🇺 dans le monde 🌍 ! Des contributions transdisciplinaires, de l’art 🎨 aux sciences sociales 🏛️, écrites pour des non spécialistes. Un beau projet soutenu par @espol-lab.bsky.social 🥳 globaleuropejournal.org/issues/issue...

You enjoy working with students and want to share your knowledge? There is a great job opportunity in political science (and social sciences methods) at the @univcatholille.bsky.social 👇 www.linkedin.com/posts/julien...

💥 Vous aimez le contact avec les étudiants? Vous avez envie de partager vos connaissances? Vous avez un intérêt pour l'innovation pédagogique? La European School of Political and Social Sciences…...

💥 Vous aimez le contact avec les étudiants? Vous avez envie de partager vos connaissances? Vous avez un intérêt pour l'innovation pédagogique? La European School of Political and Social Sciences (ESP...

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VDL is right. We should stop talking about defending “every inch” of European/NATO territory. Unconsciously, it’s a way to assume that it is primarily an American responsibility. It’s not. This is a mission for the metric system.

Interview éclairante avec @pierreharoche.bsky.social sur la position stratégique de l'Europe, aux côtés d'États-Unis toujours ambigus. Ou pourquoi les Européens doivent sans attendre assumer seuls la première ligne de dissuasion face à la Russie. www.lecho.be/dossiers/con...

Pierre Haroche:

Pour Pierre Haroche, spécialiste de la sécurité européenne, les Européens doivent sans attendre assumer un nouveau rôle: la première ligne de dissuasion face à la Russie.

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Land robots are the new drones! 👉 That's another reason for sending 🇪🇺 troops to 🇺🇦 after ceasefire. If we don't want to have to defend Europe with millions of soldiers 🫡at the eastern border, we can learn from 🇺🇦 how to do it with machines 🤖. www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

Ukrainian forces turn to unmanned ground vehicles to counter drones

Specialized Ukrainian units using unmanned ground vehicles are emerging across all brigades. These machines already carry out most supply runs and evacuations on the front lines.

lemonde.fr

Fascinating to compare these two polls. 👉Defence and international relations are top concerns of 🇪🇺; the least important for 🇺🇸. 👉 🇪🇺 citizens are aware of the threats; member states & 🇪🇺 should be more ambitious.

Les citoyens, obnubilés par les enjeux domestiques, ne s’intéressent pas aux questions internationales? 👉Faux.

Ce ne sont pas les citoyens qui entravent l’intégration 🇪🇺 en matière de défense, mais les bureaucraties. Même dans un climat de montée des populismes, les citoyens comprennent que l’union fait la force.

👉For centuries, there was intense military competition between European states for the conquest of the 🌍. 👉Then Europeans delegated security to extra-European superpowers. 👉Today, Europe itself has to become a power. #EuropeDay

My presentation @eesc.bsky.social : 3. Why we need a 🇪🇺🇺🇦 alliance

My presentation @eesc.bsky.social : 2. We need a common 🇪🇺 defence budget.

My presentation @eesc.bsky.social : 1. Why 🇪🇺 weakness might actually lead to war.

To clarify the debate: 👉It is essential to send 🇪🇺 troops to 🇺🇦 because 🇷🇺 will always be tempted to attack a 🇺🇦 fighting on its own; however 🇷🇺 will be deterred if it is convinced that an attack on 🇺🇦 is an attack on 🇪🇺. www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/a...

Europe ‘would struggle to put 25,000 troops on the ground in Ukraine’

Defence chiefs’ hopes of a 64,000-strong ‘deterrence’ force is unlikely to be fulfilled, sources say

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L’enjeu crucial, ce n’est pas le plan de #Trump, ce sont les garanties de sécurité, l’alliance 🇪🇺🇺🇦. Seule une présence 🇪🇺 en 🇺🇦 peut dissuader 🇷🇺 d’attaquer à nouveau 🇺🇦; seule 🇺🇦 peut permettre à 🇪🇺 d’être réellement militairement autonome et crédible.

Que ce soit pour compenser le désengagement 🇺🇸, financer une présence 🇫🇷 terrestre en 🇺🇦, ou renforcer l'armée 🇺🇦, on butte toujours sur la question du financement. Un budget 🇪🇺 de défense commun est plus urgent que jamais. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

Cessez-le-feu en Ukraine : pourquoi les discussions entre les alliés sont si difficiles

Les divergences sur l’envoi de troupes en Ukraine ne sont que la face visible de négociations beaucoup plus âpres sur la « militarisation » du pays, admettent de plus en plus ouvertement de nombreuses...

lemonde.fr

Merci à @sebagobert.bsky.social pour cette vidéo, qui a été l'occasion de revenir sur l'argument de mon livre #DansLaForgeDuMonde mais aussi de parler de l'avenir: budget de défense commun, garanties de sécurité, alliance avec 🇺🇦... www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3il...

"L'Ukraine, alliée essentielle de l'autonomie stratégique européenne" Entretien avec PIERRE HAROCHE

YouTube video by Sébastien Gobert

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Why Eurobonds or bust? 1. It generates a lot of cash fast, meaning big orders can be done fast to address big gaps: ammo, long range strike, tanks, air defense, artillery, air-tanker/transport, etc. 2. It's equitable! Debt servicing paid out of the EU budget so all member states contribute. 1/

Max Bergmann@maxbergmann.bsky.social · last yr.

Call me deeply dubious. Put aside whether to do this through the Commission or not. Setting up a new bank to provide loans just ain’t solving the problem. It’s all marginal, as is the EU 150bn loan proposal. For European security, it’s Eurobonds or bust. www.politico.eu/article/uk-e...

For the EU, the implications are massive, but my hunch would be that this fastens decoupling and "strategic autonomy" from the US Particularly a strong incentive to stimulate own tech sector and to reduce dependency of Silicon Valley (since we can't use that trump card now) 3/5

That is why it is even more important than before to anchor 🇺🇦 in 🇪🇺 security architecture. We need to build a solid rampart from the Barents Sea to the Black Sea.

Depuis des décennies les 🇪🇺 ont vécu avec l’idée que le seul allié fiable était 🇺🇸; aujourd’hui nous peut-être l’occasion de créer un nouveau moment fondateur dans lequel c’est la solidarité entre 🇪🇺 qui aura été décisive.