The Co-Chairs of the Working Group on Maritime Counter-piracy and Mitigation Operations have announced the agenda for the next meeting. The meeting will be held in conjunction with the CGPCS’s 18th Plenary Session and take place in New York on 7th July … Continue reading
From the 7th to the 9th of July the CGPCS will hold its next meeting in New York. The Trust Fund, the Working Group on Capacity Building and on Operations will meet on July 7th, on July, the 8th the … Continue reading
In a new Powerpoint presentation by the EEAS the work of the CGPCS is explained in 15 easy steps. The presentation discusses how the CGPCS was designed, how it functions and why it worked so well in containing piracy. It also … Continue reading
Acting chairperson of the CGPCS Maciej Popowski from the EEAS presented the work of the CGPCS in the light of the future of the maritime security architecture in the Indian Ocean at two international conferences. At the conference titled “The Indian … Continue reading
How is maritime piracy developing? What are the current numbers? The NGO Oceans Beyond Piracy (OBP) continues to be a main source of information on piracy and its human and economic cost. For the first time OBP has published an … Continue reading
The acting chair of the CGPCS, the European External Action Service has announced the initial agenda of the next working group and plenary meetings. The plenary will take place on the 8th of July in New York, while Working Group … Continue reading
A new comment piece by LLC investigator Christian Bueger from Cardiff University discusses the question whether informal governance complements or challenges the legitimacy of the UN system Drawing on the CGPCS as an example it is argued that formal and … Continue reading
The acting chair of the CGPCS has published the summary of the meeting on the High Risk Area (HRA) held in Brussels on the 13th of March. As previously reported, during the meeting the participants agreed on a basic process … Continue reading
At a session of the Subcommittee on Security and Defense of the European Parliament on the 17th of March the state of current counter-piracy was discussed. Marcus Houben from the EEAS, head of the support team of the EU chairmanship … Continue reading
On the 13th of March an extra-ordinary meeting of the CGPCS was held to address the issue of the revision of the High Risk Area (HRA). With the decline of the number of successful and attempted piracy incidents since 2012, … Continue reading