College of Europe Podcast (Bruges)

CSDP 2 - Coexistence, cooperation or competition? The EU and NATO's complicated relationship

College of Europe Podcast (Bruges)

Show Notes

In this second episode of CSDP, Alexander Neuhalfen sits down with Alexandros Papaioannou to talk EU-NATO relations. He is a college alumnus and a visiting professor at the College of Europe in Bruges. Ms Papaioannou is a career diplomat at the Greek ministry of Foreign Affairs and he has worked for over 10 years at NATO – first as Advisor in the Office of the Secretary General and later as Policy officer in charge of NATO-EU relations. So he knows all about the complicated relationship of these two institutional structures.

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