9 February 2010
CER breakfast meeting to launch 'Germany opens Pandora's box' with Kori Schake, Lord Robertson and Franklin Miller, London

12 January 2010
CER roundtable on transatlantic defence with Jeff Bialos and Quentin Davies, London

29 September 2009
CER roundtable with the Pentagon's Jim Townsend on 'US defence policy', London

23 June 2009
CER dinner on European Defence with John Hutton,
former secretary of state for defence, London
speech

10 March 2009
CER dinner with Gilles de Kerchove, the EU's counter-terrorism co-ordinator, 'What are Europe's counter-terror priorities?', London

view gallery

5 February 2009
Dinner with Ilkka Laitinen, director of Frontex on 'The fight to secure Europe's borders', London

14 October 2008
Dinner seminar on 'British defence policy, NATO and the European security and defence policy', with Liam Fox MP and Lord Gutherie, London

8 October 2008
CER/BNE defence breakfast meeting with
Lord Robertson and Maurice Gourdault-Montagne, Ambassador of France to the UK

12 September 2008
CER roundtable with Ambassador Kurt Volker, US Permanent Representative to NATO, London
Ambassador Volker's speech

14 February 2008
CER defence roundtable with François Heisbourg,
Lord Robertson and Kori Schake, London

view gallery

20-21 November 2007
Franco-British defence forum with Desmond Bowen, Pierre Moscovici, Pauline Neville-Jones and General Wolsztynski, Paris

25-26 January 2007
CER/Dutch Foreign Ministry seminar on 'Ways to improve the co-operation between defence, diplomacy and development' Rotterdam
Rotterdam recommendations

6 December 2006
CER/BLP drinks reception on defence, London
Speaker: James Arbuthnot MP (Chair of the Commons defence committee)

5-6 December 2006
CER/IRIS second Franco-British colloque on European defence, London
Speakers: Alain Richard and Lord Robertson

3 July 2006
CER defence industry brainstorming on 'How to run a European defence equipment programme', London

31 May - 1 June 2006
CER-IRIS Franco-British Forum on colloque on European defence, Paris

4 May 2006
CER/BLP breakfast meeting on 'The future of the European defence industry' London
Keynote speaker: Ulf Hammarstrom

27 March 2006
CER/EDA brainstorming on 'EU Defence in 2020', London
Speakers: James Arbuthnot MP, Major General David Leakey and Air Marshall Sir Tim Garden

2 February 2006
CER/Aspen Italia conference on securing the European homeland, Rome
with Franco Frattini, Otto Schily and Giuseppe Pisnau

19 January 2006
CER seminar on 'The EU and counter-terrorism', Brussels
Speakers included: Gijs de Vries, EU counter-terrorism co-ordinator, François Heisbourg, special adviser at the Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique in Paris, and Prof Dr Monika den Boer, Scientific Dean,

The European Union and the fight
against terrorism
speech by Gijs de Vries, EU counter-terrorism
co-ordinator, 19 January 2006

Human rights 'are key to winning terror battle'
article by Jimmy Burns, Financial Times,
19 January 2006

20 October 2005
CER launch of 'The EU and counter-terrorism', London
Speakers included: The Rt Hon Charles Clarke MP, Shami Chakrabarti, Director of Liberty, Michael Clarke, King's College London, Philippe Errera, French foreign ministry, Daniel Keohane, CER and Paul Wilkinson, St. Andrews University

5 October 2005
Dinner seminar on 'Counter-terrorism', London
Speakers: David Omand and Simon Webb

22 March 2005
Roundtable on 'A human security doctrine for Europe', London
Speakers: Mary Kaldor and Klaus Reinhardt

9 March 2005
CER/FPC roundtable on 'UN REFORM', Brussels
Speakers: Ron Asmus, Robert Cooper, David Hannay and Steve Stedman

19 November 2004
CER launch of A European way of war, Washington
Speakers: Kori Schake and Michael O'Hanlon

1 July 2004
CER launch of 'A European way of war', London
with Rob de Wijk, of the Clingendael Institute, Bruce Stokes, German Marshall Fund of the US, Charles Grant,CER, The Rt Hon Geoff Hoon MP, the Secretary of State for Defence and Lawrence Freedman, Professor of War Studies at King's College London

speech by The Rt Hon Geoff Hoon MP, 1 July 2004

29 June 2004
Dinner seminar on 'The European defence agency' with Nick Witney, London

8 June 2004
Seminar on 'NATO's Istanbul agenda', with the Secretary General of NATO, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Brussels

4 June 2004
CER launch of 'A European way of war', Brussels
Speakers: Jamie Shea and Lawrence Freedman

12 March 2004
Brainstorming on 'Europe's role in UN reform', London

17 December 2003
Brainstorming on the 'European approach to warfare', London
Speakers: François Heisbourg and Lawrence Freedman

16 July 2003
Seminar on European defence with Sir Kevin Tebbit, London

19 March 2003
Dinner seminar on 'European defence', London
Speakers: Simon Webb and Peter Ricketts

11 February 2003
Dinner seminar hosted by Emyr Jones-Parry on 'EU-NATO relations', Brussels

18 July 2002
Seminar on 'The future of NATO' with François Heisbourg, London
Speakers included: Lawrence Freedman and General Sir Michael Jackson

14 May 2002
CER-RIIA Briefing: Can EU foreign policy be credible without a common defence?, London
Speakers included: Steven Everts, Sir Tim Garden, Charles and Claire Spencer, The Royal Institute of International Affairs

21 January 2002
Dinner seminar on 'European defence', London
Speaker: General Sir Rupert Smith

11 January 2002
Seminar on 'The future of NATO', London
Speakers included: Tim Garden, Jeff Gedmin, Douglas Hurd, François Heisbourg, Dmitri Trenin and Kori Schake