Practical information
Breakfast meeting.
Presented by President Obama on Monday Feb 1st, the new roadmap for NASA puts an end to the Constellation program, appeals to the private sector to service the ISS and aims to re-focus the Agency on innovative technology development. Is this new direction a promising one? What possibilities does it open for future cooperation with ESA and European countries, and what could the latter propose?
With Vincent Sabathier, former CNES Representative at the French Embassy in Washington DC, then a Senior Fellow on Space Issues at CSIS, now Chairman of Sabathier Consulting and Senior Associate for the Technology and Public Policy Program at CSIS; Chaired by Dr. Laurence Nardon, Head of the Space Policy Program at Ifri.
Other events
Role of Intelligence for Political Decision Making
As part of the intelligence-focused BBS, organized in partnership with the Intelligence College in Europe, Ifri welcomes Mr. Philipp Wolff, Coordinator of the German Federal Intelligence services at the Federal Chancellery.
Nuclear Sharing in Europe: A Contested Policy That Endures
Since the end of the Cold War, the number of US nuclear weapons stationed in Europe has fallen more than seventy-fold, yet their presence in Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Turkey remains a quiet pillar of NATO's deterrence posture. This "nuclear sharing" arrangement, central to the Alliance since its founding, has long been contested by public opinion, political parties, and civil society across Europe, without ever being abandoned by host governments. This paradox lies at the heart of the seminar: why does such an unpopular policy persist?