
“Pure Fantasy”: EU Defence Plans Criticised by Member States
Austrian MEP Harald Vilimsky says Brussels centrists want to bring neutral states under the NATO umbrella.

Austrian MEP Harald Vilimsky says Brussels centrists want to bring neutral states under the NATO umbrella.

Alexander Stubb: We in Europe must take care of our own part in NATO. Finland is “a security provider, not a security consumer.”

In wartime, countries depend not on ideological quotas but on fighting talent.

Brussels is trying to scare member states into funding the project by flashing the Trump card.

The Defence Commissioner would promote military cooperation among EU member states and an increase in the production of weaponry and ammunition.

The German military has to be transformed to meet the potential threat of armed conflict, Pistorius said.

2,800 military personnel from 19 member states took part in the exercise

The federalising attitude to European defence is likely to conflict with a growing sense of anti-war populism within the Parliament.

The Russian hacking incident exposed British state secrets while laying bare the security risks of privately owned national defence systems.

“Energy policy has become security policy,” the local official in charge of transitioning to sustainable energy production said, calling for better collaboration between agencies.