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On 29 October, Carlo Magrassi, EDA's Deputy Chief Executive Strategies, delivered a speech at Defensys'10.

Keynote Address by Adam Sowa, Deputy Chief Executive of the European Defence Agency, at the ACT Industry Day, 5-6 October, Prague.

EDA held a Biological Equipment Development and Enhancement Programme symposium, hosted by the French Ministry of Defence, from 10 – 11 May 2010 in the Military School, Paris, France.

Wise Pen Team report on Maritime Surveillance (MARSUR)

EDA will be present at the Festival of Europe, on Saturday 8 May 2010.

Après des glissements de terrain et des inondations qui ont affecté plus de 300.000 personnes dans l'est de l'Ouganda au début du mois de mars, l'ONU fournit aux populations vulnérables une assistance humanitaire d'urgence.

Le Fonds des Nations Unies pour l'enfance (UNICEF) a fourni 145.000 livres de français, mathématique et science aux enfants centrafricains affectés par les conflits armés récurrents dans le pays.

EDA’s Chief Executive, Alexander Weis, delivered a speech at the “Défense et Stratégie” Conference on “L’Europe puissance navale”. During the third roundtable, dedicated to a powerful industry as a condition for a European naval power, Alexander Weis has expressed EDA’s views on the naval European Defence Technological and Industrial Base, underlining the efforts needed in this domain.

EDA announces the conclusion of Project STAMP

On 9 October 2009, the EDA Steering Board in National Armaments Directors formation approved “Guidelines for facilitating SMEs’ access to the defence market”.

The European Defence Agency’s (EDA) Member States France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Sweden (as lead nation) have signed a Project Arrangement on the MID-air Collision Avoidance System (MIDCAS) at the Paris Air Show on 17 June 2009

The European Defence Agency (EDA) signed the contract on the Studies for Integrated Multifunction Compact Lightweight Airborne Radars and Systems (SIMCLAIRS) on 31 March 2009, an ad-hoc category B project, with a consortium consisting of national industrial companies from three EDA participating Member States: France, Sweden and United Kingdom. The consortium consists of four European companies, all of which have already been successfully involved in past and present airborne radar and equipment development in Europe

Le Secrétaire général de l’ONU, Ban Ki-moon, a déploré les violences qui ont fait des dizaines de morts et de blessés à Madagascar ce week-end et a prié les autorités malgaches de poursuivre les responsables de ces événements tragiques.

Le directeur général de l’Organisation des Nations Unies pour l’éducation, la science et la culture (UNESCO), Koïchiro Matsuura, a condamné lundi le meurtre du journaliste somalien Said Tahlil Ahmed, abattu le 4 février à Mogadiscio.

European Union governments today endorsed a Capability Development Plan (CDP) defining the future military needs and priorities of European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) and agreed to use it to guide future national defence investment decisions and to seek opportunities to collaborate so as to address their short-to-longer-term military requirements coherently

In the simplest terms, EDA is the “back office” for the European Security and Defence Policy – ESDP. Its task is to improve the military capabilities needed to carry out ESDP operations

The European Defence Agency welcomes the efforts of the European Commission to further support the development of a true European Defence Equipment Market (EDEM). The Defence Package published today is complementary to the Agency’s own agenda for creating a more effective EDEM and a stronger European Defence Technological and Industrial Base (EDTIB).

Le Secrétaire général de l&#39ONU, Ban Ki-moon et la Mission des Nations Unies au Soudan (UNMIS) ont fermement condamné une attaque commise par un groupe armé qui a fait plus de dix morts parmi les soldats de Mission de l&#39Union africaine au Darfour, une attaque non provoquée qualifiée de « barbare ».

Le Haut Commissariat des Nations Unies pour les réfugiés (UNHCR) a annoncé qu&#39il avait entamé hier la distribution d&#39une aide humanitaire à quelque 24.000 personnes déplacées par les violences dans la ville somalienne de Afgooye, à 30 kilomètres de Mogadiscio.

European Union Defence Ministers today welcomed a Long-Term Vision report from the European Defence Agency, designed to serve as a compass for defence planners as they develop the military capabilities the European Security and Defence Policy will require over the next twenty years in an increasingly challenging environment