News & Events
Here you can find short reports about AIES' activities and events. In the news archives on the German site you can find more detailed reports. For publications in English please click here.
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On 20 January 2010, the AIES together with the Political Academy hosted a talk with the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Spain to Austria, H.E. José María Pons Irazazábal, about the priorities of the Spanish EU Presidency.
21.01.2010 / Full Report in German
On December 4, 2009 the Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy (AIES) hosted the 13th European Forum in the festivity hall of the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna. The title of this major annual conference of the AIES was "Europe’s role and security with the Lisbon Treaty". Three days after the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty the forum offered a comprehensive approach to discuss the impact of the Treaty on the future integration process with high-ranking experts and diplomats from the national and European level. There was a broad agreement amongst the participants that this new phase of the EU’s development will bring improvements as concerns efficiency, the capability to act and the decision-making process. Nevertheless, a range of EU internal and external challenges was identified, which demand more reform steps. Amongst others, the EU will be asked to further develop existing and new strategic partnerships, especially with the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India and China). Equally important will be the strengthening of crisis management capabilities, in particular civil-military ones. In sum, the EU needs to debate a Grand Strategy.
09.12.2009 / Full Report in German
On 30 November 2009 the AIES has held together with the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI) a workshop on the topic "Space and Maritime Security – Strategies and Capabilities to counter piracy" in Vienna.
International experts from research institutions, EU institutions, international organizations and the industry discussed security political options and the use of space applications to counter piracy including the respective implications for maritime security. The use of space applications and their importance for maritime security was demonstrated using the example of the EU operation NAVFOR–Atalanta.
The results of the workshop will be published in a workshop report.
02.12.2009 / Full Report in German
21.10.2009 / Full Report in German
Is the support of political reform processes in the Middle East a shared objective of the new U.S. administration, the European Union, and reformists in the Middle East? What are perspectives of future co-operation? The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) together with the American think tank "Project on Middle East Democracy" (POMED) hosted a series of workshops in 2009 to tackle this question. The workshops aimed at identifying converging interests in Europe, the United States and the Middle East with regard to political reform in the Middle East. The first workshop took place in Washington D.C. end of May 2009, involving 15 participants from Europe, the U.S. and the Middle East. The findings of the first workshop were then discussed in an event at Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik (DGAP) in Berlin in the beginning of June 2009. The final workshop in the series was held in Washington again beginning of October 2009. During a public event at Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, AIES Associate Fellow Almut Möller together with participants of the workshop reported about the workshop’s discussions and findings. The results as well as policy recommendations will be published in a policy paper by the end of 2009.
12.10.2009 / Full Report in German
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