About Us

European News Journal (ENJ)

After 17 years at the helm of the editorial team of an award-winning magazine promoting a European Security and Defence Union, we wanted to start something new, to keep our finger on the pulse of the new era of uncertainty into which Europeans have been catapulted by Putin’s war on Ukraine and which has accelerated dramatically since Donald Trump’s election as the 47th President of the United States. For this reason, we have decided to launch a new, independent publication.

The digital format of the European News Journal on Geopolitics, Space, Civil Protection & Defence (ENJ) will enable us to respond more quickly to important events as they unfold and provide targeted analysis of their impact on European and global affairs.

ENJ will analyse current geopolitical developments with a particular focus on their implications for European security and discuss the new efforts of European NATO countries in the challenging field of defence and armament cooperation.

The journal will closely monitor the strategic role of space and analyse the associated security risks. It will highlight the valuable role of modern space technologies and satellite applications in civil protection and crisis management, areas that have become increasingly important due to the dramatic consequences of climate change, such as the increase in extreme weather events that threaten the lives of populations and the socio-economic development of countries and exacerbate conflicts related to water scarcity and climate migration.

For each of these topics, we will aim to interview experts about the background and future developments and invite leading figures from politics and the EU institutions, the military and industry, think tanks and academia to share their perspectives on these burning issues of the day.

This website is the first manifestation of our new initiative. It will be updated regularly. The first issue of the bimonthly European News Journal will be published end of October 2025.

Who we are

Hartmut Bühl

Publisher / Editorial Director

Hartmut Bühl was born in 1940 in Karlsruhe, Germany. He is a retired general staff officer (Colonel) who served, among others, as a defence and security policy advisor to two German chancellors (1982-1986), as military attaché in Paris (1986-1990), and as first Deputy Chief of Staff Operations (DCOS) of Eurocorps in Strasbourg (1992-1996).

After retiring in 1998 from the Bundeswehr, Hartmut worked for industry for several years and served as Executive Vice-President of EADS, Director of Security and Defence at NATO/EU in the EADS Brussels Representation Office, and as Team Leader Communications of the Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS) consortium in Brussels, among others.

Hartmut started his journalistic career in 2007 as head of the Brussels office of the German Behördenspiegel Group publishing house (until 2014). He was editor-in-chief of the award-winning magazine The European – Security and Defence Union for 17 years (2008-2025).

Hartmut is the author of several books on strategic security and defence issues and on military resistance during the Nazi regime. He was decorated with the German Bundesverdienstkreuz am Bande (1994) and the United States Meritorious Service Medal (1998). France made him Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur in 2004.

h.buehl@european-news-journal.com

Nannette Cazaubon

Senior Editor / Managing Editor

Nannette Cazaubon, born in 1968 in Überlingen, Germany, is an independent journalist specialised in the field of European security and defence policy and international relations.

Having grown up in Germany and France, Nannette studied literature at the University of Bonn and political science at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (IEP) in Paris. After working as an independent lecturer, for the German Bundestag in Bonn among others, she settled to Paris in 1998, where she started out as an editorial assistant for the German weekly magazine Der Spiegel and worked for the magazine Label France published by the French foreign ministry.

From 2003 onwards, Nannette was the Paris special correspondent for the German publishing group Mönch (2003 to 2013). From 2008 to 2014 she was the senior editor of SecurityCommunity.eu, an independent information service on CSDP activities, and she worked as an advisor to the Brussels based think tank European Security Round Table. Nannette was the deputy editor-in-chief of the magazine The European – Security and Defence Union for 15 years (from 2010 to 2025).

As an author, Nannette has participated in the writing of several European Commission reports and was involved in a number of journalistic and art projects.