Victor Angelo

Formal Diplomatic Communication Date: December 23, 2025 To: His Excellency Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation Subject: Stra...

  Respond with Firmness to the Drones, Sabotage, and Threats of Vladimir Putin Victor Ângelo The swarms of drones that have recently been f...

My professional travels through the world of multilateral organizations, and through dozens of countries with diverse political cultures, ha...

The US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, addressed the Munich Security Conference today. His line was very clear: the US has not moved awa...

As I look at leaders ‘meeting, and the way they look at their own forces, always over-estimating the capacity of their forces and inter-s...

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...

When it comes to European defence, it is not either the US or Turkey that count. It is basically how the issue is seen by the French, the...

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...

On this Bastille Day 2019, I think we can draw two very clear lines. First, the European defence must be taken seriously. Our countri...

Brief answers to questions about the EU defence and security: First, it is obvious that NATO remains the strongest defence option for...

On defence, my position is that in the long-term Europe must have its own capabilities and the ability to defend itself. It is always bet...

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...

Again, on defence, it’s clear to us in the EU that one of the key military objectives of Russia is to look stronger than they really are....

The issue of collective defence is again a major concern for many European countries. It has to take into account a good number of major ...

President Trump’s decision to pull out of the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) is as much about Russia – the other cou...

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