The aim of this training activity is to provide a comprehensive understanding of the common security and defence policy of the European Union, its complex structure and decision-making process, its crisis-management procedures and crisis-response mechanism, and its integrated approach to external conflicts and crises.
The course started with welcome and introduction given by the HSJWC Commandant, Major General Michail Ploumis and the keynote speakers Prof. Spyros BLAVOUKOS, Head of the Ariane Condellis European Programme at Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) and Ms Evgenia KARATARI, Deputy Head of Division of the EU Situation Room in the Crisis Response Centre at the European External Action Service.
The five-day course focused on topics related to the current geopolitical environment and the challenges facing European security from the perspective of the common security and defence policy. The content covered crisis management structures and procedures, EU peace-keeping operations and current CSDP missions and operations, focusing in more detail on EUNAVFOR MED IRINI and Operation ASPIDES.
The course was attended by 58 participants from Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Malta, Poland, Spain and Sweden.
Special thanks to the organisers, speakers and participants for their dedicated work and active participation!
