Historic ‘ASAP’ Ammo Deal Approved by the European Parliament
The €500 million subsidy plan to boost domestic defense production—part of the wider €3 billion arms procurement scheme—can now be finalized during the Council’s upcoming July summit.
The €500 million subsidy plan to boost domestic defense production—part of the wider €3 billion arms procurement scheme—can now be finalized during the Council’s upcoming July summit.
The era of “small, technologically sophisticated armies” is gone, and we must return to mass conscription “to cope with large-scale, high-intensity warfare,” PM Ciucă, an ex-military general, said.
Irish elites are playing a delicate balancing act with majority opinion against NATO membership, despite stark warnings that the nation’s military is nowhere near up to scratch to defend against Russian sabotage.
Ukrainian officials have said that all 18 missiles aimed at Kyiv were successfully shot down, including the six hypersonic missiles, a claim that Kremlin officials have disputed.
Replacing unanimity with qualified majority voting would only benefit Western Europe, leaving smaller member states without the ability to protest the potential rise of a centralized EU super army.
According to AfD foreign policy spokesman Petr Bystron, organizers of the conference “are not concerned with dialogue and the exchange of opinions. In times of war, voices of peace are shut out.”
For weeks now, Russian air assaults have been wreaking havoc on Ukrainian infrastructure. According to Kyiv, these have now destroyed nearly 50% of the country’s energy infrastructure, leaving 10 million Ukrainians without power.
Due to heightened tensions in the Baltic Sea region, local political leadership of Bornholm, Denmark, demands full time presence, with around-the-clock response capability.
It remains to be seen whether Denmark’s caution toward the EU will persist into the months and years to come, or whether the referendum of June 1st, motivated by the fear of Russian expansionism, will have caused a major shift in Danish European policy.
As a NATO member, Denmark is obligated to spend 2% of its GDP on national defense, a threshold the Scandinavian country is currently far from meeting.
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