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Latest news - Next SEDE meetings - Committee on Security and Defence


The following extraordinary meetings of the Committee on Security and Defence (SEDE) are scheduled to take place on:

  • Monday, 16 June 2025, 20.30 - 21.15, Strasbourg (room CHURCHILL 200)
  • Tuesday 17 June 2025, 20.30 - 21.30, Strasbourg (room WEISS R5.1)

Further information about the SEDE meetings can be found here.

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SEDE missions 2025:
  • Norway - 27 - 30 May 2025
  • Moldova and Ukraine - 14-17 April 2025
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina - 24-27 February 2025
  • Israel and Palestine - 5-8 February 2025
SEDE missions 2024:
  • United Kingdom - 28-30 October 2024
  • Ukraine - 25-26 October 2024

SEDE Committee meetings' calendar 2025
EP calendar 2025
SEDE meetings' calendar 2nd half of 2024 - 10th legislature
Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

Ukraine : Jamming wars

Intelligence Online - Tue, 10/06/2025 - 06:00
The prevalence of drones and guided missiles on the front lines in Ukraine is making weapons of electronic warfare critical in a conflict that has seen both sides working to perfect their technology. For Kyiv, that has meant developing crucial partnerships with its allies, as Intelligence Online has witnessed on the ground. [...]
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France/Lebanon : Port of Beirut: new revelations about suspect contract that led to blast

Intelligence Online - Tue, 10/06/2025 - 06:00
At the end of July 2024, Georges Kamar, a French-Lebanese consultant based in Normandy, was summoned by the French judicial authorities. "It's been four years of torment for me," he told the gendarmes from the investigation unit who questioned him. [...]
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United Kingdom : UK's new defence plan sets challenge of consolidating all military intel capabilities

Intelligence Online - Tue, 10/06/2025 - 06:00
While the Strategic Defence Review (SDR) presented to the British government on 2 June made headlines for its "NATO first" [...]
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Russia/Ukraine : Swarmer, the invisible brain behind the SBU's spectacular drone strikes inside Russia

Intelligence Online - Tue, 10/06/2025 - 06:00
On the night of 1 June, Ukraine struck at the heart of Russia's nuclear deterrent. Five long-range strategic aviation bases [...]
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United States : Intelligence from space: US Indo-Pacific cooperation in jeopardy despite ambitious announcements

Intelligence Online - Tue, 10/06/2025 - 06:00
Donald Trump's Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth began his speech at 8:30 am in Singapore's Shangri-La Hotel to an audience of [...]
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Saudi Arabia : PwC enlists former US defence intelligence official to target Saudi contracts

Intelligence Online - Tue, 10/06/2025 - 06:00
PwC is already a service provider to Saudi Arabia's defence ministry and now hopes to bag upcoming military intelligence assistance [...]
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Polish Mi-17 Conducts Deck Landing Qualifications on USS Mount Whitney During BALTOPS 25

The Aviationist Blog - Mon, 09/06/2025 - 20:07

The BALTOPS 25 exercise granted a rare sighting of a Soviet-designed helicopter landing on one of the U.S. Navy’s two Cold War era Blue Ridge class ships. Sailing in the Baltic Sea, the USS Mount Whitney (LCC 20) offered its large aft helicopter deck as a facility for Polish military personnel operating the Soviet-designed Mil […]

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A Look at the Dozen SR-71 Blackbird Losses

The Aviationist Blog - Mon, 09/06/2025 - 16:01

The SR-71 is perhaps the most iconic Cold War spy aircraft, famous for many record-setting flights. Seemingly impervious to loss by enemy defenses, a dozen Blackbirds were lost to accidents. Blackbird Beginnings On July 24, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson announced at a news conference the existence of a Mach-3 capable reconnaissance aircraft designated the […]

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Boeing Tapped For KC46 | Romania To Acquire Enok | Taiwan Condemned China For Patrol

Defense Industry Daily - Mon, 09/06/2025 - 06:00
Americas Boeing won a $12.1 million delivery order for the KC46 commercial common depot level repairables strategic repair contract. The performance completion date is April 6, 2026. Using military service is Air Force. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2025 through 2026 Air Force working capital funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The US Marine Corps has received its final MQ-9A Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) from General Atomics Aeronautical Systems at the Grey Butte Field Airport in California. Its delivery marks the conclusion of the corps’ three-year acquisition campaign, one of defense’s efforts to upgrade its capabilities as part of the Force Design 2030 restructuring plan. The $136-million MQ-9A contract was originally drafted to boost the corps’s operational capability in terms of range and endurance. Middle East & Africa Iran warned European powers on Friday against backing a draft resolution at the International Atomic Energy Agency next week, accusing Tehran of non-compliance, calling it a “strategic mistake.” “Instead of engaging in good faith, the E3 is opting for malign action against Iran at the IAEA Board of Governors,” Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on X, referring to Britain, France, and Germany. “Mark my words as Europe ponders another major strategic […]
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United States : NSA faces exodus of experienced leaders

Intelligence Online - Mon, 09/06/2025 - 06:00
While its budget requests are being examined by the US Congress, the National Security Agency (NSA) is giving further assurances that it will reduce its workforce in line with the wishes of Donald Trump's administration.The end of May was marked [...]
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European Union/France/United Kingdom/United States : Service Action, US budget, Pro-Orban think-tank, Royal United Services Institute

Intelligence Online - Mon, 09/06/2025 - 06:00
France - Change of guard at DGSE Cercottes campFrance's specialised parachute training centre (CPES) stationed at Cercottes in France's Loiret [...]
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United Kingdom : British private spies and a fund under attack join forces against their short-seller enemy

Intelligence Online - Mon, 09/06/2025 - 06:00
The enemies of my enemies are my friends. This could be the credo of London-based corporate intelligence firm Audere Group. [...]
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China/Thailand : Thailand poised to buy Chinese FN-6 surface-to-air missiles

Intelligence Online - Mon, 09/06/2025 - 06:00
The Royal Thai Armed Forces are about to acquire FN-6 surface-to-air missiles from the China National Precision Machinery Import and [...]
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France/United States : Paris gets tougher on drug trafficking... in Florida

Intelligence Online - Mon, 09/06/2025 - 06:00
The French DRM military intelligence agency has deployed a reinforced unit of geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) and interception (SIGINT) analysts to [...]
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Russia : Russian presidential adviser Sergey Kiriyenko on the rise within Kremlin

Intelligence Online - Mon, 09/06/2025 - 06:00
Powerful Russian technocrat Sergey Kiriyenko, first deputy chief of staff of the presidential administration and architect of the ideology behind [...]
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USAF Tests 500 lb QUICKSINK Bomb in B-2 Stealth Bomber’s Maritime Strike Test

The Aviationist Blog - Sun, 08/06/2025 - 19:53

The B-2 Spirit would be able to employ up to 80 500 lb QUICKSTRIKE weapons, holding at risk multiple targets in a maritime environment. The U.S Air Force and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) announced on Jun. 4, 2025, the test of a “new, more versatile variant of the QUICKSINK maritime weapon,” based on […]

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Ukrainian Air Force Claims Shootdown of Russian Su-35S Fighter

The Aviationist Blog - Sun, 08/06/2025 - 12:22

Footage shared online confirms that Russia has lost another Su-35S. According to some unverified claims, the Flanker was shot down by an F-16. Ukraine’s Air Force says it has shot down a Russian Sukhoi Su-35 Flanker-E fighter jet during a morning operation on June 7, 2025. According to a brief statement shared on the Air […]

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Alleged New Image of China’s J-36 Stealth Jet Reveals Key Design Details

The Aviationist Blog - Sat, 07/06/2025 - 12:28

The new front photo clearly shows a side-by-side seating arrangement, as well as a large main weapons bay with two smaller ones on the sides. The Chinese J-36 has appeared in a new image, photographed on the flightline in a fully visible frontal aspect and revealing more about its design configuration. The aircraft, built by […]

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U.S. Air Force Activates Experimental Operations Unit for Collaborative Combat Aircraft at Nellis AFB

The Aviationist Blog - Fri, 06/06/2025 - 23:05

The Experimental Operations Unit will help accelerate the integration of Collaborative Combat Aircraft in service. The U.S. Air Force has announced the activation of an Experimental Operations Unit (EOU) at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, to accelerate the introduction of Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA). The unit, which will be subordinated to Eglin AFB’s 53rd Wing, […]

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