Category: Security policy

Bremen - DGzRS celebrates the birthday of selfless help

The German Maritime Search and Rescue Service (DGzRS) was founded in Kiel on 29 May 1865 and, over the past 160 years, has laid the foundations for a sustainable, donation-financed and therefore independent sea rescue service in Germany with selfless helpfulness, constantly renewed rescue equipment and good organisation. Until the middle of the 19th century, these conditions did not exist in the North and Baltic Seas. However, the idea of a uniform, independent organisation that rescues people from distress at sea regardless of the person or cause finally prevailed. It was a long way from the rowing lifeboat to the rescue cruiser and thanks to the great support from...

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Manoeuvres in the Baltic Sea - NATO with a large presence

Major maritime manoeuvre BALTOPS starts for the first time in Rostock Baltic Operations, or BALTOPS for short, has been around for decades. It is NATO's most important US-led naval manoeuvre in the Baltic Sea. The multinational exercise usually lasts two weeks and ends in Kiel at the start of Kiel Week. Having gone unnoticed for years, BALTOPS has gained new attention in view of the security tensions in the Baltic Sea region. Not only because new NATO partners, Finland and Sweden, have joined the organisation, but also because the Americans have so far remained a reliable partner despite all the political statements made within NATO. At the working level, there are - so they say -...

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NATO Association visits Lübeck

The unit exercises in the Baltic Sea with a combination of mine defence measures and patrols. It is intended to strengthen the security of the Critical Underwater Infrastructure (CUI). Previously, the units were in Visby (Gotland, Sweden) and demonstrated NATO's continued presence in the Baltic Sea. These patrols demonstrate the Alliance's commitment to collective defence, deterrence and maritime security in an area where strategic awareness and unity among Allies is essential.

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