EU preparedness against CBRN weapons
The European Union faces an increasingly challenging security environment, with a climate of international instability and a level of tension not seen since the end of the Cold War. Repeated chemical attacks by both State and non-state actors in the context of the Syrian conflict, the Novichok attack in Salisbury and the disruption of two ricine terror plots in Germany and in France in 2018 came all as stark reminders that the threat remains real and that Member States could be affected. In this context, the European Union (EU) continues to strengthen its capacities in the field of CBRN preparedness and response. The use of EU mechanisms and Member States’ military assets is one of the possibilities for strengthening prevention capacities that must be explored more thoroughly.
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Elisande NEXON, Senior Research Fellow, and Claude WACHTEL, Independent Consultant, Associate Senior Research Fellow, Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique (FRS), France
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- BUSINESS AND COMPETITION
- common security and defence policy
- crisis management
- defence
- dissemination of EU information
- EU institutions and European civil service
- European construction
- EUROPEAN UNION
- geopolitics
- humanities
- international conflict
- INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS
- INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- international security
- management
- NATO
- SCIENCE
- weapon of mass destruction
- world organisations