by George Visan, July 15, 2016 In Warsaw, president Klaus Iohannis triumphantly proclaimed during the final press conference that Romania achieved all of its objectives set before the summit. And on the face of it, he is right. Romania obtained what appears to be a strong allied presence on its territory – a multinational brigade,…
by Stefan Popescu, July 7, 2016 Symbolic place, difficult context The background against which the Warsaw high level meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is taking place is far from usual: the result of the UK referendum on leaving the European Union. Even if London continues to have an important presence in Europe (as…
by George Visan, June 23, 2016 The threat By end of 2016 Russia’s Black Sea Fleet will have deployed 3 Admiral Grigorovich guided missile frigates, 6 Kilo class submarines, and at least 2 Buyan-M guided missile corvettes. All of these surface combatants and sub-surface combatants can employ long range cruise missiles and/or supersonic anti-ship missiles. Recently,…
by Eliza Gheorghe, September 7, 2015 Five out of six Black Sea countries have (or have had) benefited from the civilian uses of the atom. Energy-wise, Black Sea countries’ reliance on nuclear power ranges from almost 20% in Russia and Romania, to a third in Bulgaria, and almost half in Ukraine. The research reactor in Georgia…
by Teodor Chirica, August 10, 2015 European energy security European institutions have been concerned for some time with this topic. If we go back in time to the 1970s oil crisis, the nuclear energy boom that followed it, made Europe the biggest concentration of nuclear power plants (NPPs) in the world, with a well defined horizontal…
by George Visan, June 5, 2015 Crimea’s annexation in March 2014 and the subsequent war in Eastern Ukraine brought shortly into discussion the topic of Romania’s security and its Eastern policy. Romania’s attempt to „reset” its relations with Russia was abandoned, while Black Sea politics became militarized. Crimea’s control allows Russia to effectively project power in…
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