The EU and the Internal Defence Market: What Are the National Perspectives?

Notes / ARES Group - The Armament Industry European Research Group

13 October 2026

The EU and the Internal Defence Market: What Are the National Perspectives?

Félix Arteaga

Senior Fellow, Elcano Royal Institute

Samuel B. H. Faure

Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Strategic Research (IRSEM)

Calle Håkansson

Head of the Programme for European and Global Politics, Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI), and Researcher, Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI)

Alessandro Marrone

Head of «Defence Security and Space» Program, Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI)

Łukasz Maślanka

Senior Fellow, Security and Defence Department, Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW)

Christine Nissen

Chief analyst, Think Tank Europa

Andrea Rotter

Head of Division Foreign and Security Policy, Hanns Seidel Foundation

Federico Santopinto

Senior Research Fellow at IRIS, Head of the Europe, EU, NATO Programme on EU/NATO issues

Prof. Margarita Šešelgytė

Director of the Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University

Auke P. Venema

Senior Research Fellow, Clingendael

Aligning Shields: Greece’s Integration Into the EU Capability Development Process

Notes / ARES Group - The Armament Industry European Research Group

16 July 2026

Aligning Shields: Greece’s Integration Into the EU Capability Development Process

Spyros Blavoukos

Head, EU Institutions & Policies Programme; Head of the ‘Ariane Condellis’ European Programme; Senior Research Fellow, Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP); Professor, Athens University of Economics & Business

Panos Politis Lamprou

Research Fellow, Defence Hub, Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP)