20150612 - ELF Seminar on Pooling & Sharing: The Benelux Air Defence Pact – A Blueprint for Visegrad?
Background: On March 4, 2015, Benelux countries signed an agreement to share surveillance and protection of their air spaces. Starting from 2017, Belgian and Dutch air forces will take turn to monitor the Benelux airspace. The agreement is a novelty in European defence policy because it is the first time countries agreed that a foreign air force may operate and potentially shoot down a civilian plane over its territory. Two months later, Ministers of Defence from Visegrad countries (Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary) reached preliminary agreement on similar cooperation in the Central European region. Unlike in Benelux, the agreement only defined a joint vision. Concrete time framework and details of the cooperation are to be negotiated.
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20150612 - ELF Seminar on Pooling & Sharing: The Benelux Air Defence Pact – A Blueprint for Visegrad?
- 1. SEMINAR POOLING & SHARING The Benelux Air Defence Pact A Blueprint for Visegrad? Benelux Airspace: Lessons from its Creation Prague, 30/06/2015
- 2. Hello, this is Tim Vandenput Flight mechanics engineer Member of the Belgian Parliament Commissioner for Defence and Foreign Affairs
- 3. And my name is Laurens Bynens Researcher at Liberaal Kenniscentrum Advisor for Defence and Development at Open Vld Policy Centre
- 5. Waterloo
- 6. S The Benelux Air Defence Pact From 2017 onwards, Belgian and Dutch fighter jets will protect the Benelux air space
- 7. The agreement on the joint air policing
- 8. The agreement on the joint air policing S followed a letter of intent signed in October 2013 S signed by the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxemburg on March 4, 2015
- 10. Quick Reaction Alert S NATO Procedure S Combined Air Operations Centre
- 11. Renegade
- 12. Renegade “… terrorism is considered to be the most serious threat to air transport. Many agree that this threat is real, persistent, evolving, sophisticated and hardly predictable. Terrorists use asymmetric methods which are difficult to reveal and defend against them” – Schóber e.a. Possibilities of countering the air threat and prevention against it. Management and Socio-Humanities, 2012.
- 13. S Belgium has been a pioneer for multiple years in this field S 2004 – invitation to neighbours S 2005 – bilateral with France S Germany? UK? Renegade
- 14. Renegade S National authorities decide S Depends on national laws S In Benelux: Dutch/Belgian pilots can receive orders from Be-Ne-Lux
- 15. S Dilemma that each country must face: Will we ultimately shoot down a civilian airplane to save civilians on the ground? Ethical discussion on Renegade
- 16. S The Belgian presence in Malbork The Baltic Enhanced Air Policing Mission
- 17. Belgian F-16 and Polish MiG-29 side by side
- 18. Baltic Enhanced Air Policing Mission S 4 F16’s in the NATO operation S number of incursions: +50% S civilian airliner approaches: 30
- 19. Vision on a European army
- 20. Vision on a European army S Cfr. Czech Minister of Defence at ALDE: do we act on intergovernmental or supranational principles? S Benelux as inspiration for European integration
- 21. Collaboration S 200 years ago for war S Now for peace with ‘sharing’ of sovereignty