Daniel Fiott
@DanielFiott
Professor and Head, Defence and Statecraft, @CSDS_Brussels @VUBrussel; and Non-Resident Fellow, @rielcano | 🇲🇹🇪🇺 (I never read DMs)
We’ve been here before in the EU with this whole “stability at all costs” ethos… it didn’t work in the past and it will not work in the future. Europe is like the frog in warm water…
POV: me, listening to the 2025 SOTEU whenever I hear the words “European sovereignty” or “strategic autonomy”.
“Veni, vidi, vici” (Daddy, 27 July 2025) Fine work #TeamEurope. Now we can all enjoy the summer holidays can’t we…
How the EU succumbed to Trump’s tariff steamroller on.ft.com/46wgY24
A lot of Europeans tonight… “I love the Europe we could be, I hate the Europe we are!”
Trade and military power go together!!! You cannot be an economic power without military power. Europe has fooled itself (with help from others) into thinking you can have one without the other. European nations do not want this reality. Let’s not fool ourselves.
President Trump wants Europeans to buy American cars and import American-made food… I can understand why, but tariffs cannot touch the hearts and minds of people. One cannot simply re-wire culture and taste…
From the USA’s new Artificial Intelligence action plan… how the Federal Government seeks to help with the adoption of AI in the DoD. whitehouse.gov/wp-content/upl… #AI #Defence
Safe to say… SAFE is on track.
As the deadline to submit requests for #SAFE loans is almost here, I am impressed to hear that already now ✅at least 20 🇪🇺Member States will request the loans ✅more than €100 bn will be requested to ramp up European Defence #Readiness2030 Want peace - be Ready for Defence!
“It’s like a seafood market,” said one distributor, “There’s no shortage.” Good FT piece on China getting its hands on US chips. ft.com/content/6f806f…
“The Pentagon has suspended participation in all think tank and research events until further notice”, according to this piece.
Pentagon suspends participation in think tank events politi.co/46XLLVu via @JackDetsch
🎙️ "Moscow must take into account a possible double Anglo-French vengeance". Listen to @ATJMattelaer and @Elie_Perot discuss the 🇫🇷🇬🇧 Northwood Declaration on nuclear cooperation for #StrategySpeaks. Listen now🔸 podcasts.apple.com/be/podcast/str… #UK #France #Nuclear
"digital resilience needs to be at the heart of defence modernisation efforts across the Euro-Atlantic. It is critical that allies can store, analyse, exploit and protect data and information", write Daniel Fiott and Antonio Calcara. Read🔸 csds.vub.be/publication/co… #NATO #cloud