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Regardless of the ongoing negotiations for peace in Ukraine, this is a long-term investment in [response to] a long-term plan of aggression,
Kallas said, referring to a Russian economy, which she said was in "full war mode" with 40% of its federal budget going on military expenditure
If Russia is allowed to achieve its goals in Ukraine, its territorial claims will expand, ... Russia will remain a fundamental threat to the security of Europe for the foreseeable future."
warned the EU Commission in the white paper, ... adding:The British defence industry is so much intertwined with ours [in the EU],
a senior EU diplomat said
We don’t want to give the impression we are seeking to decouple ourselves from the US.”
A senior German government official in Berlin told reportersWe are working on having this defense and security partnership with U.K. I’m really hoping that for the summit which is in May, we can have results,
Kallas said
We’re not doing this to go to war, but to prepare for the worst and defend peace in Europe,
said Kaja Kallas, the EU’s top diplomatWe must buy more European. Because that means strengthening the European defense technological and industrial base,
said Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in announcing the Readiness 2030 program
We need to see not only Russia as a threat, but also … more global geopolitical developments and where Americans will put their strategic attention,
European Defense Commissioner Andrius Kubilius told reportersThere are lot of requests across the globe to cooperate with us,
said a senior EU officialWe do away with fragmentation precisely by incentivizing member states to get together” and buy the same weapons at a better price
said an EU officialThey use weapons that are not produced in Ukraine [and] sometimes there are limitations on how they can use those weapons … your military needs to really have free hands in this regard,
she said450 million European Union citizens should not have to depend on 340 million Americans to defend ourselves against 140 million Russians, who cannot defeat 38 million Ukrainians,
European Defence Commissioner Andrius Kubilius said
The international order is undergoing changes of a magnitude not seen since 1945. This is a pivotal moment for European security,
European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas told reporters in BrusselsThe era of the peace dividend is long gone. The security architecture that we relied on can no longer be taken for granted,
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said
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The fundamental objective of this whole process has to be the commitment to maintain the basic parameters of budgetary stability in the coming years,
De Guindos told a financial event in Madrid
We need to avoid defense washing: that everything suddenly becomes ‘defense,
Dombrovskis told a group of media, including POLITICO, on Tuesday
It’s good for the country because we want to avoid war in Europe,
Mr. Fuest said in an interview
Economic strength and Europe’s plan to rearm are two sides of the same coin,
Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, said in a recent speech, calling the potential investments a “powerful tailwind for important industries.”If German taxpayer money is being spent, then we need to create German jobs,
Armin Papperger, Rheinmetall’s chief executive, told reporters last week, adding.jpg)
Now we need to rebuild defense capabilities, in part from scratch, with a technology-driven defense and procurement strategy, with automated systems, with independent European satellite surveillance, with armed drones and with many modern defense systems and, above all, with reliable and predictable orders that should go to European manufacturers whenever possible,
Mr. Merz said