Basic facts The European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) is a European agency based in Paris that provides to European institutions and member states, scientific analysis and studies about the foreign, security and defence policy issues. This agency has been created in 1989 to serve the Western European Union Read more…
Basic Facts The Military Planning and Conduct Capability (MPCC) is a permanent operational headquarters, part of the European Union Military Staff (EUMS). It has been created the same year as the EUMS in 2017. It is based in Brussels, Belgium and it is under control of the General Director of Read more…
Basic Facts The European Union Military Staff (EUMS) is a department of the European Union Military Committee (EUMC), that has been created in 2002 to assist the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. Its headquarters is based in Brussels, Belgium. Since 2020, the General Director Read more…
Basic Facts The European Union Satellite Centre (SatCen) is a European Agency based in Torrejón de Ardoz, Spain. Since 2019, its director is the Rumanian diplomat Sorin Dumitru Ducaru. He previously held several key positions at NATO and is a specialist of Cyber Defense issues. Before becoming a European Agency Read more…
Basic Facts The European Defense Agency (EDA) that is located in Brussels, Belgium, has been created in 2004 with the objective to promote defense capabilities through more European cooperation. It has 26 member states, which basically represent the EU members except Denmark and has established agreements with non-EU countries, such Read more…
The ‘European Defense Institutions in a Nutshell’ is a project developed by EDN, aiming to publish a series of short, informative articles describing European defense institutions and organizations that contribute to the development and further integration of the European defense and security policy, strategy and operability. We divided the institutions Read more…