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Séminaire organisé à Bruxelles avec Didier Beutier, Vice President for Economic and Prospective Studies, Areva ; Alice de Brauer, VP Strategic Environmental Planning, Renault ; Koen Coppenholler, Head of European Government Relations, Arcelor Mittal ; Marc Duhem, Regional Manager for Europe, Solvay ; Mattias Dürr, Head of Office, RWE AG Liaison Office Brussels ; Jan Horst Keppler, Professor of Economics at University of Paris-Dauphine and Senior Research associate with Ifri Energy Program ; Krish Krishnamurthy, Linde AG ; Jacques Lesourne, Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the Ifri Energy Program ; Assaad Saab, Vice President International Affairs, EdF ; Arve Thorvik, Vice President StatoilHydro EU Affairs ; William Ramsay, Deputy Director, International Energy Agency ; Yves Smeers, Tractebel, Professor of Ecomics at the Catholic University of Louvain, Wolfgang Weber, Head of Energy and Climate Policy, BASF.
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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?