Just for fun, a compilation of the official video footage of the October 2011 European Council on the euro crisis.
French navy helicopter fires guns to stop pirates (March 2010)
31 March 2010 By
The French navy fregate Nivose, taking part in the EU NAVFOR Atalanta mission, earlier this month stopped two vessels off the Somali coast in the Gulf of Aden and arrested [Read more...]
EU anti-piracy mission goes into 6th month
29 May 2009 By
This video report, produced by the European Council for its own website and YouTube channel, gives an official update on the current state of the EU NavFor Atalanta mission, designed to fight piracy in the Gulf of Aden and the Somali Basin.
Since April, the EU’s counter-piracy operation is under Spanish Command. Two Swedish corvettes, the HMS Malmo and HMS Stockholm and a support ship, have recently joined the European naval force, which is based in Djibouti. EU Foreign Ministers this month extended the operating area for Atalanta beyond the Somalia basin and the Gulf of Aden to the Seychelles.
The Swedish corvette HMS Malmo, whose commander is interviewed in the EU Council video, earlier this week fired its guns during its first direct confrontation with pirates who tried to enter a Greek merchant ship. Seven pirates were arrested.
Watch the Swedish navy battle-cam video here, courtesy of the Swedish navy’s own YouTube channel:
Northwood, UK: Command centre of EU anti-piracy mission
16 May 2009 By
The HQ of the European Union’s antipiracy mission in the Gulf of Aden and the Somali basin is at the British naval base in Northwood, just outside London. Rear Admiral Philip Jones shows EU Foreign Policy Chief Javier Solana the centre and explains how the operation, named Atalanta, is run.
Admiral: “Hundreds” of warships needed to fight piracy
15 May 2009 By
Rear-Admiral Philip Jones, Operation Commander of EU NAVFOR Somalia held a press conference on counter-piracy operation.
The operation, called Operation Atalanta, is the European Union’s first naval task force, and it has been assembled to ensure the protection of vessels of the World Food Programme delivering food aid to displaced persons in Somalia as well as protection to other vulnerable shipping off Somalia and to provide deterrence to acts of piracy by presence and surveillance.
Somali pirates arrested after attack on German warship (NEW)
16 April 2009 By
This is fresh footage, filmed by crew aboard the Greek frigate Psara and made available by the Council of the European Union, of the arrest of Somali pirates after they attacked the German naval tanker Spessart on the 29th of March.
The latest announcements from the EU naval mission.
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