Victor Angelo

  What image will Europe project at the Munich conference? By Victor Ângelo My chronicle of January 30th underscored the importance of this ...

Emmanuel Macron's New Year Victor Angelo With this first day of the new year, the six-month French presidency of the European Union ...

European horizons and balances Victor Ângelo   We live in a time of uncertainty. The pandemic is still at the centre of all worries. T...

The situation in the Eastern Mediterranean is becoming very tense. Turkey is doing oil mapping at sea, in waters that are contested by a fel...

  Translation of today’s opinion piece I published in Diário de Notícias (Lisbon) Questioning the obsession with security Victor Angelo ...

I have said many times that the President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is a major menace to the European interests. That includes the...

All along, I have listened to a good number of dinner speakers. And I have noticed that, in general, they believe that a successful speec...

A few of my readers have expressed some degree of surprise after reading what I wrote in my last blog about President Trump’s policy towa...

NATO is seventy years old. It remains a unique type of organisation. Including because it brings together two very distinct ways of looki...

A joint aircraft carrier, as proposed yesterday by the new CDU party leader, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (Germany)? To be funded by the Eu...

Taking into account the ongoing discussions on military budgets, I went back to the text approved at the NATO Summit of 2014, in Wales....

On defence matters, the EU countries have no other option but to pool resources together. That´s the future and that´s the only way to rea...

The on-going debate about the future of EU security and defence is excessively focused on the military dimensions. It is also incomplete i...

The questions and the debate that followed my presentation on UN peace operations – yesterday´s post was about the public address I delive...

This last day of 2014 marks the end of ISAF, the international military mission in Afghanistan. The coalition of combat forces, the larges...

The renewed intrusion of Russian troops in Eastern Ukraine, which has been properly document during the last couple of days, has brought b...

The international political tensions keep deepening. And they have a major negative impact of trade and investment. We seem to be going ba...

President Obama´s speech at West Point on foreign policy must be read with great attention. It shows the direction the US is taking in int...

Thoughts on Peacekeeping within an African background Victor Ângelo 1.        Introduction On 10 April 2014 the UN Security ...