Achilles, The Tortoise And CSDP: The Way Forward for Europe’s Defence

The French Institute for International and Strategic Affairs (IRIS) is one of the main independent European Think Tanks on geopolitical and strategic issues.

IRIS, a public-interest association created in 1991, is a French think tank on geopolitical and strategic issues. It is the only international think tank to have been set up as a totally private initiative in an independent approach. IRIS activities can be divided into four fields: research, organisation of events and meetings, publishing and training.

The Armament Industry European Research Group (Ares Group) was created in 2016 by The French Institute for International and Strategic Affairs (IRIS), who coordinates the Group. The aim of the Ares Group, a high-level network of security and defence specialists across Europe, is to provide a forum to the European armament community, bringing together top defence industrial policy specialists, to encourage fresh strategic thinking in the field, develop innovative policy proposals and conduct studies for public and private actors.Abstract:

In December 2016, EU leaders gave their blessing to defence plans that were expected to help them take the security of Europeans a bit more seriously. These efforts came from the right place. Europe did need to get its act together, and to do so on its own terms before President Obama was to step down, and the EU became a noisy but ineffectual onlooker in the Donald Trump pantomime show.

IRIS: ARES – Armament Industry European Research Group http://www.iris-france.org/ares/

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