Daniel Fiott
@danielfiott
Professor and Head, Defence, Investment and Innovation, CSDS - VUB; and Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Real Instituto Elcano. More on me:
I’m very pleased Nolan decided to film in #Malta for The Trojan Prologue in #TheOdyssey. Calypso’s Cave, in Gozo, has long been thought the location of the mythical Ogygia, where the nymph Calypso saves and holds Odysseus captive for 7 years. Malta is such a timeless land…
📈EU defence spending reached €418 billion in 2025 – 20% more than the year before. The increase reflects EU countries’ efforts to strengthen Europe’s defence capabilities. See more below via the European Defence Agency. New data drop here: eda.europa.eu/publications...
¡Qué alegría ver que 1️⃣0️⃣ publicaciones del @rielcano.bsky.social han sido incluidas en la "Think Tank Review" del @consilium.europa.eu! www.consilium.europa.eu/en/documents...
Joyeuse Fête nationale! Vive la France! Happy National Day to our French brothers and sisters. 🇫🇷
“Up to 53 cents of every euro in additional defence spending is eventually recovered through higher economic activity and tax revenues when procurement is sourced from euro area suppliers and economy-wide productivity spillovers materialise” www.esm.europa.eu/system/files...
A great write up of the NATO Summit by @shonamurray.bsky.social for @euronews.com. I was very pleased to provide a series of comments for the piece. Give it a read here: www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
Recently, @aresgroup-eu.bsky.social was present at Eurosatory, where the group organised a roundtable titled “Towards a More Efficient Defence Market” with industrialists and EU officials. A report of the exchanges is now available! Give it a read here: www.iris-france.org/en/eurosator...
A pleasure being live on @euronews.com with @mariatad.bsky.social and @maxbergmann.bsky.social to exchange our thoughts on the NATO Summit. Europeans are starting to live up to the NATO 3.0 challenge: building the European defence industry and generating the capabilities we need.
👀 A new book is on the way... I am glad to have contributed a chapter on the European Union for this excellent forthcoming edited collection by Tim Haesebrouck, Michelle Haas and Servaas Taghon. Lots of great chapters. Pre-order here: link.springer.com/book/9783032...
As is always the case, by the end of it, corruption never ever pays… take note FIFA The best team clearly won. But it wasn’t a contest football wise. Belgium utterly spanked a very amateur and ultimately weak USA. Well done to my Belgian Red Devils 🇧🇪
“New Schuman roundabout is 'worst' possible outcome, says architect..” www.euractiv.com/news/new-sch...
This will inevitably become a popular and manipulated meme… however, my main concern is the choice of font on the board. What were NATO staff thinking? Gold Trajan Pro serif font? It’s very Trumpian, of course, but have some self-respect… 😜
Delighted to share details of my latest publication. This time, a book chapter on Defence Technology Governance in the EU. Luckily, the book is open access, so you can dig right in. See here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Today, I passed by the new RPS 2.0 (Rond Point Schumann)…. A concrete jungle with zero character. Not fitting for the location. So, here goes… what to do with the space…
"A total of 117 unexploded items have been cleared from a channel between Sicily and Malta which will host the second undersea power cable between the two islands" Photo and article via @timesofmalta.bsky.social timesofmalta.com/article/117-...
¡Qué alegría! 5 documentos del @rielcano.bsky.social han sido incluidos en la Revisión de Think Tanks del @consilium.europa.eu de junio de 2026. ¡Enhorabuena a todos mis compañeros por su inclusión! 🇪🇸🇪🇺 Lista completa www.consilium.europa.eu/en/documents...
The death of #FCAS what does it mean for common European defence projects? Read this: csds.vub.be/publication/...
I am so pleased with my latest @aresgroup-eu.bsky.social paper with Renaud Bellais on the question of security of supply and strategic autonomy. We set out to reframe the debate with the concept of "strategic indispensability". We hope it creates a debate! Read www.iris-france.org/security-of-...
It was a great pleasure to share the stage with Defence Commissioner @andriuskubilius.ec.europa.eu and @tyynekarjalainen.bsky.social yesterday afternoon. We covered a lot of ground on the future of European defence. Thanks to @tepsa.bsky.social for the invite! Thanks to David Luengo for the photo.
Not a war zone… just the customary fireworks factory explosion in Malta just now. The video footage via @timesofmalta.bsky.social is just unbelievable. It is a miracle only two individuals were injured, especially given the immense radial blast. Goodness! timesofmalta.com/article/powe...
A really interesting paper by @csis.org “Rebuilding U.S. Missile Inventory: A Multiyear Project” www.csis.org/analysis/reb...