Interventions

The European Union's geopolitical sovereignty — lecture for the École de Management public de Toulouse

Embassy of France in Brussels · 2 June 2026

Can Europe Defend Itself? Rethinking NATO and Strategic Autonomy — Transatlantic Sciences Po & Harvard Undergraduate Foreign Policy Initiative

Remote · 23 April 2026

Deterrence and sovereignty — round table of IHEDN – Armament, with Bruno Tertrais (FRS) and Héloïse Fayet (IFRI)

Conseil supérieur du Notariat, Paris · 8 April 2026

Seminar at the École des Mines de Paris on the place of defence in Europe and on a Europe of defence

Paris · 19 March 2026

Lecture for the participants of IHEDN's Digital Sovereignty and Cyber programme

Brussels · 13 March 2026

What nuclear deterrence for a credible European defence? Address to the “neighbourhood” group of the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL/KUL)

Remote · 12 March 2026

Lecture at the invitation of the IndustriAll Europe Executive Committee

Brussels · 14 February 2026

How can the European Union defend itself without the United States? Video conference with Sciences Po Reims students

Remote · 14 February 2026

Lecture for Bpifrance, the French public investment bank

Paris · 8 April 2025

Economic intelligence and strategic autonomy — seminar for officer cadets of the Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan military academy

Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan · 28 January 2025

Building European defence since 2014: major advances and milestones ahead

École de guerre, Paris · 5 March 2024

EU–Ukraine: what lessons? What challenges to meet together?

UCLouvain / Université Saint-Louis, Brussels · 6 February 2024

France's main concerns regarding the defence of Europe

Collège des Hautes Études Militaires, Brussels · 6 February 2024

The state of European defence in the context of the war in Ukraine

Institut des Hautes Études de Défense Nationale (IHEDN), Paris · 26 January 2024

EU In support of Defence Research and Procurement

Konrad Adenauer Stiftung — European Office, Brussels · 6 July 2023

The implementation of the Strategic Compass: the Rapid Deployment Capacity

European Parliament — Euromil (with General Robert Brieger, Chairman of the EU Military Committee) · 8 June 2023

Is a European army desirable? Is it conceivable?

Association Sciences Po alumni, Brussels · 25 May 2023

European defence in question

Association des Officiers de Belgique & Association des Françaises et Français des institutions communautaires, Brussels · 24 May 2023

European defence — stakes and prospects

École des Mines de Paris (video conference) · 16 February 2023

Defending Europe — the state of European defence in the context of the war in Ukraine

Royal Military Academy of Belgium — École de guerre française visiting Brussels · 15 February 2023

European defence integration versus national sovereignties

Royal Higher Institute for Defence (RHID), Brussels · 20 January 2023

Will the European Union's Rapid Deployment Capacity be operational by 2025?

Royal Higher Institute for Defence (RHID) — Royal Military Academy of Belgium, with Prof. Markus Kaim (SWP Berlin) · 2023

Europe's power initiatives

IHEDN, Paris · 4 December 2022

European diplomacy and the war in Ukraine

Institut d'études politiques de Strasbourg (video conference) · 24 November 2022

The European Union facing the war in Ukraine

Institut d'études politiques de Strasbourg & Eurocorps officers (video conference) · 4 November 2022

Did the PADR properly prepare the EU for the European Defence Fund

European Court of Auditors (closed-door hearing) · 12 October 2022

European defence and NATO: a shifting strategic context

École de guerre, Paris · 9 June 2022

European defence: budgets and concepts

École de guerre — Corps des commissaires des armées, Paris · 3 May 2022

European defence

Université Paris I Sorbonne — Master II · 2 May 2022

Economic patriotism in defence matters

French Military Representation to the European Union — Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan officers, Brussels · 22 April 2022

European defence and the war in Ukraine

Royal Higher Institute for Defence (RHID), Brussels · 16 March 2022

After the Strategic Compass, a strategic dialogue?

Institut Egmont / LIPHA / UPEC, Brussels · 9 March 2022

From strategic autonomy to European sovereignty

Collège des Hautes Études Militaires (CHEM), Brussels · 22 February 2022

Strategic autonomy in question

École militaire — IRSEM & IHEDN : « l'UE quelle puissance dans le monde ? », Paris · 15 February 2022

The Union's strategic autonomy and France's role in the CFSP/CSDP

Council of the European Union — translation service (video conference) · 31 January 2022

European sovereignty and solidarity

Centre de Recherche des Écoles de Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan (CREC) · 20 January 2022

European defence after Afghanistan

Royal Military Academy, Brussels · 23 November 2021

European defence in the post-Afghanistan context

IHEDN, Paris · 14 October 2021

European defence: state of play

Alumni association of Sciences Po Lyon, Brussels · 11 October 2021

The European Defence Fund and EDIDP: progress and perspectives

Centre d'études et de recherches européennes Robert Schuman (CERE), Luxembourg · 23 June 2021

Presentation of the study on the European Defence Fund

European Parliament, Subcommittee on Security and Defence — with Édouard Simon · 31 May 2021

Which Strategic Compass for Europe?

French Senate — Foreign Affairs Committee (closed-door hearing) · 6 May 2021

What room for national sovereignties in European defence?

IHEDN Jeunes — working group (video conference) · 4 December 2020

Research, Innovation, Sovereignty and European Values

Club des Organismes européens de recherche (CLORA) — video conference · 27 October 2020

European Defence: cooperation versus integration

CDU working group on security and defence, Brussels · 12 March 2020

The House supports / does not support a European army

College of Europe, Natolin (Poland) · 11 February 2020

Strategic autonomy: must we choose between Europe and NATO?

École Nationale d'Administration (ENA), Strasbourg · 14 January 2020

Academics as soldiers? Is defence related research a scandal or a duty?

Egmont University Foundation, Brussels · 5 December 2019

Debating Strategic Autonomy as a European ambition

IFRI — Security Studies Center, Paris · 3 December 2019

Prospects of a European Army: Fantasy or Solution?

IFAT, Budapest · 5 November 2019

A European army: myth or reality?

Airbus — headquarters, Paris · 3 October 2019

Towards a definition of strategic autonomy

IHEDN — armaments session, Paris (inaugural lecture) · 26 September 2019

Towards a European army: dream or reality

Les Jeunes Fédéralistes — Château d'Ortenberg · 14 June 2019

European defence

French Senate — closed-door hearing · 15 May 2019

European defence: challenges ahead

European Parliament — Kangaroo Group, Brussels · 14 May 2019

European Sovereignty

EU Institute for Security Studies (EUISS), Paris — closed seminar · 14 May 2019

Comparison of the NATO defence planning process and European defence planning process

Aerospace and Defence Industries Association of Europe (ASD), Brussels · 11 March 2019

Defence planning in Europe

Royal Academy of Belgium — Collège de Belgique, Brussels · 21 February 2019

European Defence: from Cooperation to Integration?

European Security and Defence College (ESDC) / IHEDN — European Commission Conference Centre, Brussels · 20 February 2019

European army: better chances without the UK?

European Parliament — Kangaroo Group, Brussels · 19 February 2019

The concept of strategic autonomy

Permanent Representation of France to the European Union — citizens’ reserve, Brussels · 18 February 2019

Budgetary framework: the European Defence Fund and EU budget for civilian CSDP

European Security and Defence College (ESDC) / IHEDN — European Commission Conference Centre, Brussels · 9 February 2019

PESCO: Sleeping Beauty… or Cinderella

German Reservist Working Group, Brussels · 20 March 2018

Strengthening Europe's Defence industrial and technological base — the future of industrial defence policy

European Parliament — Long-term Investment Intergroup, Brussels · 19 February 2018

PESCO

Association des Français et Françaises de la Communauté européenne (AFFCE), Brussels · 5 February 2018

PESCO: where do we stand?

Centre de recherches Jean Gol — Palais d'Egmont, Brussels · 12 September 2017

European defence: state of play

ABCD Annual Baltic Conference on Defence, Tallinn · 6 September 2017

The full energizing of the Lisbon treaty in the field of defence

Estonian Ministry of Defence, Tallinn · 17 March 2017

Offsets in the field of defence — the rules of the game, the spirit of the laws and the foreseeable future

European Club for Countertrade and Offset (ECCO) — EURONAVAL, Paris · 21 October 2016

Security & Defence R&D: how can we make Europe safer

Science|Business, Brussels · 12 October 2016

The future of European defence research

Permanent Representation of France to the European Union — citizens’ reserve, Brussels · 18 April 2016

The future of defence research in Europe

College of Europe, Bruges · 16 April 2016

The future of European Defence Research

European Parliament — public hearing before the Subcommittee on Security and Defence, Brussels · 16 March 2016