How to keep Europe safe

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By: Juliette Rengeval Follow

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Faced with growing risks, be it the crisis between Ukraine and Russia or the situation on African soil, faced with the jihadist threat, Europe must think about ensuring its security.

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France and its European partners have just announced their withdrawal from

Mali

, considering that the conditions are no longer met to effectively pursue their current military commitment to contain the jihadist threat.

As the French president pointed out, it is impossible to "remain militarily engaged alongside de facto authorities whose strategy or hidden objectives we share neither", and who have recourse to "mercenaries from (Russian) society

Wagner

” to “predatory ambitions”. 

Florence Morice

, head of RFI 's

Nairobi

bureau, talks about

Wagner

's presence on the African continent.

The crisis with Russia, a risk for the security of Europe

This crisis will be at the center of the discussions of the American vice-president Kamala Harris, on the occasion of the Munich Security Conference.

The US Minister of Defense is also in Europe this week for a tour that passes through Brussels, NATO headquarters, Poland and

Lithuania

.

The small Baltic country is at the forefront of NATO's mission called "Enhanced Forward Presence".

In this context, Germany and then Norway announced the dispatch of additional men.

Denmark is also participating in this military effort.

This is a report by

Marielle Vitureau

, our correspondent in the Baltic countries.

For months, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been offering his mediation in the crisis between Russia and Ukraine, and more broadly between Russia and the West.

Turkey , which has forged

strong

relations with the two countries while being a member of NATO, would have a lot to lose from a conflict.

In Istanbul,

Anne Andlauer.

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