Defence industry

Securing the heavens

This Brief outlines the major space threats and makes concrete suggestions on how space can support the EU's Strategic Compass.

Briefs

15 April, 2021 Edited By: Daniel Fiott
The European space sector as an enabler of EU strategic autonomy

This study looks at the ways in which the European space sector can be an enabler of EU strategic autonomy. It asks how should the EU understand space and strategic autonomy, what has the EU achieved in space and how this has contributed to the EU’s strategic autonomy and what...

Analysis

16 December 2020 By: Daniel Fiott
Digitalising defence

Digital technologies can vastly improve the operational readiness and effectiveness of Europe’s armed forces. As this Brief shows, however, the EU needs to better understand the risks and opportunities involved in the digitalisation of defence and it needs to financially invest...

Briefs

11 March, 2020 By: Daniel Fiott
Strategic investment: making geopolitical sense of the EU's defence industrial policy

This Chaillot Paper focuses on new EU initiatives in the defence domain – in particular the creation of the European Defence Fund – and on the Union’s evolving role and engagement in this sector.

Chaillot Papers

13 December 2019 By: Daniel Fiott
The poison pill: EU defence on US terms?

In light of rising tensions between Washington and the EU over defence markets, this Brief looks at the asymmetry between US and European defence markets. It examines the web of regulations and laws which effectively provides the US government with the discretionary power to...

Briefs

14 June, 2019 By: Daniel Fiott
The scrutiny of the European Defence Fund by the European Parliament and national parliaments

Since 2016, the European Union has developed a number of new initiatives on security and defence. Commissioned by the European Parliament’s Sub-Committee on Security and Defence, this Study analyses how the European Parliament and national parliaments can effectively scrutinise...

Analysis

1 April 2019 By: Daniel Fiott
Strategic autonomy: towards ‘European sovereignty’ in defence?

Strategic autonomy. Two familiar words that are yet again in vogue in Europe but which cause confusion and, in some quarters, even alarm. This Brief compares the range of defence initiatives that have been developed by the EU since 2016 against three different conceptual visions...

Briefs

30 November 2018 Edited By: Daniel Fiott
Guns, engines and turbines – The EU’s hard power in Asia

Considering arms trade an integral part of the EU’s foreign policy toolbox, what is the status of security cooperation between Europe and Asia? Who exactly benefits from European military technology and know-how and how does that affect the overall strategic balance in the region...

Chaillot Papers

27 November 2018 Edited by: Eva Pejsova
Artificial Intelligence – What implications for EU security and defence?

This Brief seeks to advance the discussion about AI and security and defence within an EU context, and also to offer policymakers a few analytical pointers that may be useful when dealing with defence and AI.

Briefs

8 November 2018 Edited By: Daniel Fiott, Gustav Lindstrom
European armaments standardisation

This Study analyses the armaments standardisation approaches of the EU and NATO and it provides an overview of policy initiatives in the domains of maritime information sharing and remotely piloted aircraft systems.

Analysis

6 November 2018 By: Daniel Fiott