Overview of the Hellenic Presidency of the EU Council

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Overview of the Hellenic Presidency of the EU
Council on Common Security and Defence Policy
(CSDP) at Military level
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Overview of the Hellenic Presidency of the EU
Council on Common Security and Defence Policy
(CSDP) at Military level

• European Council on Defence, December 2013
• Lisbon Treaty
• Common Security and Defence Policy
• Hellenic Presidency Priorities on Defence

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Priorities

• European Union Maritime Security Strategy
• Cyber Security
• Sustainability in Defence
• Capabilities Development
• The European Industrial Base
• The Military Erasmus

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Events

• 5 informal meetings in Greece and Brussels
• 4 large scale conferences in Greece
• 8 visits of different political military
  groups at Greek
• entities
• 2 CSDP orientation courses in Brussels
• 8 working lunches in Brussels
• A strategy on maritime security to be agreed by
  the Council
• next week
• A Military Erasmus Greek initiative in progress
• The preparation and the assignment to the EU of
  the OHQ
• in Larissa for the EUFOR-CAR
• Many other small or large scale events
  organized both in
• Athens Brussels

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Meetings

• Defence Policy Directors (DPDs)
• Ministers of Defence (MoDs)
• Informal European Union Military Committees
  (EUMC)
• Brussels 13 February
• Thessaloniki 2-4 April
• Chania 5-7 June
• RELEX Visit
• PSC Visit

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ATHENA Special Committee

• ATHENA informal meeting at Thessaloniki, 13-14
  March
• Review of the ATHENA Council Decision
• It is the first time that Greece has the
  responsibility of the chair of this Committee

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Cyber Security

• Conference on Cyber Space in Athens, 6-7 March
• Topics 1. Cyber Space and Temporary Threats
• 2. Legal Aspects in Cyber Domain
• 3. Trust and Security
• 4. Cyber security
• 5. Capabilities development in Cyber
  Environment
• 6. Network Information Security
• Conclusion
• "Cyber security and cyber defence
• is a collective responsibility"
• Cyber Exercise 7-11 April

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Capabilities Development

• High level Conference of Capabilities
  Development,
• Athens 7-11 April
• Topics 1. The Role of Small and Medium
  Enterprises in
• CSDP
• 2. The Present and Future of Remote
  Piloted
• Airborne Systems
• 3. The use of SPACE in the Framework of
  CSDP

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EU Maritime Security Strategy

• Greece has the longest coastline and maritime
  borders in the EU
• Seminar on Maritime Security and Surveillance at
  Chania, 20-21 March

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Sustainability in Defence

• Conference in Athens, 10-11 June
• Incorporation of Climate Change and Sustainable
  Development Principles in Armed Forces and the
  Defence Industry
• A Route from Adaptation to Reform - A Better
  Future Bet

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Exchange of young officers and cadets

• The European Month Initiative, inspired by
  Erasmus
• 2nd CSDP Olympiad of the Military Institutions in
  Athens, 7-9 May

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Crisis in the Central African Republic

• Insecurity and instability in the Central African
  Republic
• The Council established on 10 February 2014 an EU
  military operation
• United Nations Security Council resolution
  2134/2014
• Operational Headquarter (OHQ) of Larissa

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Europe is our common quest and united we sail
further
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