Pierre Haroche
@pierreharoche.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of European and International Politics, Catholic University of Lille
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👉L'Europe a fait le monde
👉Le monde fait désormais l'Europe
Mon 📖 #DansLaForgeDuMonde résumé en 1 minute!
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Comment le choc des puissances façonne l’Europe
YouTube video by Éditions Fayard
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pierreharoche.bsky.social
VDL is right. We should stop talking about defending “every inch” of European/NATO territory.
Unconsciously, it’s a way to assume that it is primarily an American responsibility. It’s not. This is a mission for the metric system.
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frohart.bsky.social
Interview éclairante avec @pierreharoche.bsky.social sur la position stratégique de l'Europe, aux côtés d'États-Unis toujours ambigus. Ou pourquoi les Européens doivent sans attendre assumer seuls la première ligne de dissuasion face à la Russie.
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Pierre Haroche:
Pour Pierre Haroche, spécialiste de la sécurité européenne, les Européens doivent sans attendre assumer un nouveau rôle: la première ligne de dissuasion face à la Russie.
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pierreharoche.bsky.social
Land robots are the new drones!
👉 That's another reason for sending 🇪🇺 troops to 🇺🇦 after ceasefire.
If we don't want to have to defend Europe with millions of soldiers 🫡at the eastern border, we can learn from 🇺🇦 how to do it with machines 🤖.

www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
Ukrainian forces turn to unmanned ground vehicles to counter drones
Specialized Ukrainian units using unmanned ground vehicles are emerging across all brigades. These machines already carry out most supply runs and evacuations on the front lines.
www.lemonde.fr
pierreharoche.bsky.social
Fascinating to compare these two polls.
👉Defence and international relations are top concerns of 🇪🇺; the least important for 🇺🇸.
👉 🇪🇺 citizens are aware of the threats; member states & 🇪🇺 should be more ambitious.
pierreharoche.bsky.social
Les citoyens, obnubilés par les enjeux domestiques, ne s’intéressent pas aux questions internationales?
👉Faux.
pierreharoche.bsky.social
Ce ne sont pas les citoyens qui entravent l’intégration 🇪🇺 en matière de défense, mais les bureaucraties. Même dans un climat de montée des populismes, les citoyens comprennent que l’union fait la force.
pierreharoche.bsky.social
👉For centuries, there was intense military competition between European states for the conquest of the 🌍.
👉Then Europeans delegated security to extra-European superpowers.
👉Today, Europe itself has to become a power.
#EuropeDay
pierreharoche.bsky.social
My presentation @eesc.bsky.social : 3. Why we need a 🇪🇺🇺🇦 alliance
pierreharoche.bsky.social
My presentation @eesc.bsky.social : 2. We need a common 🇪🇺 defence budget.
pierreharoche.bsky.social
My presentation @eesc.bsky.social : 1. Why 🇪🇺 weakness might actually lead to war.
pierreharoche.bsky.social
👉But we need as many 🇪🇺 states as possible to participate. That's why I proposed an EU joint training mission between 🇪🇺 and 🇺🇦 forces.

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Towards an EU–Ukraine alliance: A plan for an EU–Ukraine Joint Training Mission - Institut Jacques Delors
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pierreharoche.bsky.social
👉Plus we need to integrate 🇺🇦 into the 🇪🇺 security architecture to form a coherent rampart along the entire front line.
👉However, it is not necessary to send large forces. The aim is to have a ‘tripwire’, similar the NATO EFP model.
pierreharoche.bsky.social
To clarify the debate:
👉It is essential to send 🇪🇺 troops to 🇺🇦 because 🇷🇺 will always be tempted to attack a 🇺🇦 fighting on its own; however 🇷🇺 will be deterred if it is convinced that an attack on 🇺🇦 is an attack on 🇪🇺.
www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/a...
Europe ‘would struggle to put 25,000 troops on the ground in Ukraine’
Defence chiefs’ hopes of a 64,000-strong ‘deterrence’ force is unlikely to be fulfilled, sources say
www.thetimes.com
pierreharoche.bsky.social
L’enjeu crucial, ce n’est pas le plan de #Trump, ce sont les garanties de sécurité, l’alliance 🇪🇺🇺🇦. Seule une présence 🇪🇺 en 🇺🇦 peut dissuader 🇷🇺 d’attaquer à nouveau 🇺🇦; seule 🇺🇦 peut permettre à 🇪🇺 d’être réellement militairement autonome et crédible.
pierreharoche.bsky.social
Que ce soit pour compenser le désengagement 🇺🇸, financer une présence 🇫🇷 terrestre en 🇺🇦, ou renforcer l'armée 🇺🇦, on butte toujours sur la question du financement. Un budget 🇪🇺 de défense commun est plus urgent que jamais.
www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
Cessez-le-feu en Ukraine : pourquoi les discussions entre les alliés sont si difficiles
Les divergences sur l’envoi de troupes en Ukraine ne sont que la face visible de négociations beaucoup plus âpres sur la « militarisation » du pays, admettent de plus en plus ouvertement de nombreuses...
www.lemonde.fr
pierreharoche.bsky.social
Merci à @sebagobert.bsky.social pour cette vidéo, qui a été l'occasion de revenir sur l'argument de mon livre #DansLaForgeDuMonde mais aussi de parler de l'avenir: budget de défense commun, garanties de sécurité, alliance avec 🇺🇦...
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"L'Ukraine, alliée essentielle de l'autonomie stratégique européenne" Entretien avec PIERRE HAROCHE
YouTube video by Sébastien Gobert
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maxbergmann.bsky.social
Why Eurobonds or bust? 1. It generates a lot of cash fast, meaning big orders can be done fast to address big gaps: ammo, long range strike, tanks, air defense, artillery, air-tanker/transport, etc. 2. It's equitable! Debt servicing paid out of the EU budget so all member states contribute. 1/
maxbergmann.bsky.social
Call me deeply dubious. Put aside whether to do this through the Commission or not. Setting up a new bank to provide loans just ain’t solving the problem. It’s all marginal, as is the EU 150bn loan proposal.

For European security, it’s Eurobonds or bust. www.politico.eu/article/uk-e...
UK joined European officials at secret dinner to plot radical rearmament fund
A supranational bank would sidestep the European Commission, involve the British, and allow defense-spending off the balance sheet.
www.politico.eu
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hdijkstra.bsky.social
For the EU, the implications are massive, but my hunch would be that this fastens decoupling and "strategic autonomy" from the US

Particularly a strong incentive to stimulate own tech sector and to reduce dependency of Silicon Valley (since we can't use that trump card now) 3/5
pierreharoche.bsky.social
That is why it is even more important than before to anchor 🇺🇦 in 🇪🇺 security architecture. We need to build a solid rampart from the Barents Sea to the Black Sea.
shashj.bsky.social
Hugely important. ‘Hegseth’s guidance acknowledges that the US is unlikely to provide substantial, if any, support to Europe in the case of Russian military advances, noting that Washington intends to push NATO allies to take primary defense of the region’ www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
pierreharoche.bsky.social
Depuis des décennies les 🇪🇺 ont vécu avec l’idée que le seul allié fiable était 🇺🇸; aujourd’hui nous peut-être l’occasion de créer un nouveau moment fondateur dans lequel c’est la solidarité entre 🇪🇺 qui aura été décisive.
pierreharoche.bsky.social
Our most important ally is no longer 🇺🇸, but 🇺🇦, which has shown that it is able and willing to stop 🇷🇺.
With 🇺🇦 anchored in 🇪🇺, we have serious chance of deterring 🇷🇺.
Without 🇺🇦 there is a serious risk of 🇪🇺 demoralisation and opportunistic 🇷🇺 attack.
institutdelors.eu/en/publicati...
Towards an EU–Ukraine alliance: A plan for an EU–Ukraine Joint Training Mission - Institut Jacques Delors
institutdelors.eu
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keohanedan.bsky.social
If the Europe I know is worth having, and it sure is, it’s worth defending.
pierreharoche.bsky.social
Glad to hear confirmation from #Macron that Europeans will deploy reassurance troops to 🇺🇦, and that this decision is not subject to either 🇷🇺 acceptance or 🇺🇸 support. This is #StrategicAutonomy.
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delorsinstitute.bsky.social
📑 #Ukraine The European Union has a pivotal role in supporting Ukraine through various means, including economic aid, political backing, and security assistance.

Have a look at @pierreharoche.bsky.social's last brief 👇
Towards an EU–Ukraine alliance: A plan for an EU–Ukraine Joint Training Mission - Institut Jacques Delors
institutdelors.eu