EPRS event explores the making of an award-winning speech: If you want peace, prepare for war

To help Members of the European Parliament and their staff with their speeches – a substantial part of parliamentary life, as the etymology of ‘parliament’ indicates– EPRS invited two high-level speakers for its 2025 event on speechwriting and delivery. Former Chair of the NATO Military Committee, Admiral Rob Bauer, and his speechwriter, Eleonora Russell, shared the lessons learnt from their award-winning speech: ‘If you want peace, prepare for war’. , The authors took the speech as the starting point for a book that expands this message, a work that inspired an engaging and motivating conversation.

July 10, 2025
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Schuman Declaration, May 1950

Aiming to secure peace in Europe after the horrors of the Second World War, the Schuman Declaration proposed cooperation among European countries in two key economic areas central to rearmament and warfare: coal and steel.

May 8, 2025
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We Are the Cat: How Schrödinger Can Teach Us to Hatelove the Bomb

By Lt Col Shawn Littleton Wild Blue Yonder, By Lt Col Shawn Littleton With the movie Oppenheimer bringing the Bomb back into our casual conversations, it is a good time to rethink how you feel about the Bomb. Its abstract but existential implications are especially present today as a driver of both conversation and human behavior in […]

We Are the Cat: How Schrödinger Can Teach Us to Hatelove the Bomb was originally published on Global Security Review.

February 9, 2024
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