RE-THINKING EUROPE’S SECURITY PRIORITIES 7 NNovemberovember 22011011 RREPORTEPORT EENN - FRFR Co-organised by: From Information to Intelligence Negotiating a contract, • Defence and security forming a partnership, developing international business, • Information technology launching a new product, taking over a competitor… these activities all involve risks. • Telecommunications But they also present tremendous opportunities if the specific risks • Energy and the environment of each situation are properlyPub assessed beforehand. • Healthcare & pharmaceuticals Information is a vital part of this assessment. • Transport Whether an organization needs to be forewarned of upcoming • Banking & Insurance technology disruptions, defend its assets from hostile intentions or promote • Agrifood sector its competitive edge on world markets, • Materials its success always depends on its ability to gather, secure and process strategic information and put it to the best use. This is the service that CEIS, the European Company for Strategic Intelligence, has been offering its clients in both the public and private sectors since 1997. With a clear agenda: to find imaginative, concrete, operational solutions to guarantee success. Olivier Darrason Chairman CEIS • Compagnie Européenne d’Intelligence Stratégique 280, boulevard Saint-Germain • 75007 Paris • France Tel.: (+33) 1 45 55 00 20 • Fax: (+33) 1 45 55 00 60 Email: [email protected] • Web site: www.ceis-strat.com SECURITY AND DEFENCE DAY 2011 3 RRE-THINKINGE-THINKING EEUROPE’SUROPE’S SECURITYSECURITY PRIORITIESPRIORITIES REEPORTPORT 4 SECURITY AND DEFENCE DAY 2011 Giles Merritt Olivier Darrason Foreword Over 40 speakers and 340 participants gathered Ministers Gérard Longuet and Thomas de to exchange their views at the fourth “Security & Maizière for their contributions to this report. Defence Day” in Brussels on 7 November 2011, organised by the Security & Defence Agenda We also extend our thanks to this year’s co- (SDA) and CEIS under the patronage of Poland’s organisers, the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, and EU Presidency. to our partners who contributed to the organi- sation and success of this event: the Madariaga We were particularly struck in this year’s discus- Foundation, the Virtuoso project, financed within sions by the importance of trust among member the 7th European Framework Programme for states and EU institutions. Amid economic and security research, and the EUROCYBEX project, geostrategic turmoil, speakers identified a real financed by the ISEC programme of the Euro- need to build trust in order to move forward and pean Commission’s DG Home Affairs. meet both political and operational objectives. We hope that Cyprus’ EU Presidency in 2012 We would like to thank the speakers for their will lend its patronage to what has become Brus- contributions, in particular Polish Secretary of sels’ flagship security and defence event. We would State for Foreign Affairs Jan Borkowski and Euro- like to invite you to join us for the next SecDef pean Commissioner for Internal Market and Ser- conference, to ensure that we continue to analyse vices Michel Barnier. We also extend our warm- and debate Europe’s key security challenges. est thanks to the French and German Defence Giles Merritt Olivier Darrason SECURITY AND DEFENCE DAY 2011 5 Contents Foreword .....................................................................................................................................4 Op-Ed by Gérard Longuet, French Minister of Defence .................................................................6 Op-Ed by Thomas de Maizière, German Minister of Defence ........................................................7 Programme...................................................................................................................................9 Securing Europe’s neighbourhood..............................................................................................14 The Role of the Weimar Triangle.................................................................................................18 Improving Europe’s situation awareness.....................................................................................23 Strengthening Europe’s crisis management.............................................................................27 Reinforcing the EU drive on defence and security technologies............................................31 Time for Europeans to bite the bullet on pooling and sharing...........................................35 Europe’s efforts to develop its cyber-defences...................................................................39 The challenges for European maritime security..................................................................43 Speakers...................................................................................................................................96 List of participants................................................................................................................113 Version Française....................................................................................................................50 The views expressed in this report are personal opinions of the speakers and not necessarily those of the organisations they represent, nor of the Security & Defence Agenda, CEIS or KAS, their members or partners. Reproduction in whole or in part is permitted, providing that full attribution is made to the co-organisers and to the source(s) in question, and provided that any such reproduction, whether in full or in part, is not sold unless incorporated in other works Français Publisher: Geert Cami Text: Madariaga – College of Europe Foundation Photos: Philippe Molitor Design: Europolitics Print: Identic 6 SECURITY AND DEFENCE DAY 2011 OP-ED “The responsibilities of European defence” 2011 has marked a veritable absent. We draw three lessons from this: first that turning point in the perception NATO is of course indispensable, in particular for of security and defence for all its coordination means made available to the Alliance European countries. Around member states. Second lesson: as the US did not make us, the world is hesitating this crisis a major priority for their forces, nothing between two models. On the would have been possible without certain European one hand, old patterns, heavy countries making their own strategic capabilities avail- Gérard Longuet, and rigid, weaken one after the able to the Alliance. Hence the third lesson: this situa- French Minister other, with the Arab Spring tion could very probably happen again. And here lies of Defence showing that they can give way the emergency. The will of a handful must be replaced to unexpected developments. by that of the entire European Union. On the other hand, a radically new international frame- work is seeing the light of day in which global powers France expects a lot from initiatives that are begin- are seeking the conditions of a new equilibrium. The ning to move the red lines of European defence in hope shared by all, in Europe and the world, is of spite of a difficult context. The Lancaster House treaty course that this new balance becomes a peaceful reality. for example, which unites France to its British ally and We must however face reality: we are all threatened by is based on a common political vision and comparable increasingly violent and systemic economic turbulence, military capabilities, is an integral part of this European and while we know this will be profoundly destabilis- defence ambition and this cooperation is not closed ing, we struggle to grasp their cultural and social conse- exclusive. quences. In terms of security, we must thus prepare for uncertain times, in which solidarity amongst Europe- I am conscious of the need to reflect on an enlarged ans will be the only remedy to the temptation of «each common action and as such I welcome the proposal to his own» which will be our demise. expressed in the framework of the Weimar Triangle which unites Poland, Germany, and France. This is why one of my major preoccupations today is that of capabilities. Let us admit it: in spite of past In a world that is not necessarily more danger- and current exercises, a long-standing temptation in ous but more unstable and thus more unpredictable, Europe has been to mistake pooling and capability the duty to defend regains its meaning and commits abstention. But only reality can be shared, not declara- us to act collectively. I welcome the 2011 edition of tions of intention. Be it in terms of know-how, capa- the SecDef conference, of which I know the quality, bilities or equipment, Europe cannot rely on a virtual and hope all the participants, experts and political roadmap. European credibility, be it within NATO or decision-makers brought together in Brussels had the EU, is at stake. While the Harmattan operation in useful discussions aimed at finding concrete solu- Lybia was a success, the European Union was long tions which Europe needs. SECURITY AND DEFENCE DAY 2011 7 OP-ED “Towards stronger European defence and security” European nations and the within the European context and exploiting the United States are currently options for establishing specialisations in capabili- confronted with a twofold ties and in the division of labour through pooling challenge. On the one hand, and sharing would enhance the potential of Euro- we are faced with growing pean armed forces. This may need time and will security challenges. On