International Alliances:
One of the first introductions to the acronym VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity) was made in the 1998 paper of the US Army War College, “Training and Educating Army Officers for the 21st Century: Implications for the United States Military Academy”, intended to prepare officers for the paradigm shift of the information age. Despite the…
On the 10th of January 2020 the 5th Anti Money Laundering Directive (5AMLD) came into force in all European countries and is part of the Union’s efforts to strengthen anti-money laundering (AML) regulations and counter terrorism financing (CTF) and financial crime. The 5AMLD aims to improve the existing AML framework across Europe by increasing transparency…
In the European Commission’s “Action Plan for strengthening the fight against terrorist financing”, published on 02 February 2016, the fight against the financing of terrorism is defined as crucial for the security of European citizens. The action plan identifies the following two main strands of action towards the Union’s efforts to step up the fight…