{"id":8021,"date":"2015-03-20T03:24:22","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T03:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/piracylessons\/?p=8021"},"modified":"2015-03-20T08:28:41","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T08:28:41","slug":"cgpcs-discussed-in-european-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/piracylessons\/2015\/03\/20\/cgpcs-discussed-in-european-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"CGPCS discussed in European Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/eeas.europa.eu\/cfsp\/cgpsc\/index_en.htm\" target=\"_blank\">EU chairmanship of the Contact Group<\/a> ,and Alan Cole, Director of \u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unodc.org\/easternafrica\/en\/piracy\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">UNODC&#8217;s Maritime Crime Programme<\/a> gave a presentations. Mr. Houben\u00a0highlighted why the CGPCS\u00a0works so well as a mechanism, and that it was instrumental in coping with the piracy situation. He stressed that the CGPCS it is a role model for how to organize effective multi-lateral crisis responses. Mr. Cole emphasized why further efforts will be required not only to contain piracy, but deal with the broader maritime security situation in the Western Indian Ocean region. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/news\/en\/news-room\/content\/20150312IPR33970\/html\/Subcommittee-on-Security-and-Defence-meeting-17-03-2015-09001230\" target=\"_blank\">video of the presentation is available here<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/piracylessons\/files\/2015\/03\/Houben-Marcus_2015_Intervention-SEDE.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">full transcript of Mr. Houben&#8217;s presentation here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/piracylessons\/2015\/03\/20\/cgpcs-discussed-in-european-parliament\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":310,"featured_media":8022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/piracylessons\/files\/2015\/03\/Alan-COLE-and-Marcus-Houben-at-EP-I.jpg?fit=4608%2C3456&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7f9-25n","meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/piracylessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/piracylessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/piracylessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/piracylessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/piracylessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8021"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/piracylessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8026,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/piracylessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8021\/revisions\/8026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/piracylessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/piracylessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/piracylessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/piracylessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}