Brussels 04.09.2025 “Today I was in Paris, where we just had the meeting of the Coalition of the Willing” reads the president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen statement. “We discussed security guarantees for Ukraine. And it was a crucial meeting, because we all know that what is at stake is the future…
Category: Defense
Gymnich: Belgium pledges €100M to PURL
Brussels 29.08.2025 The EU Foreign Affairs and Defense Ministers convene in Copenhagen for the informal meeting in Gymnich format on 29-30 August. Talks on Russia’s aggression on Ukraine and the situation in the Middle East will set the agenda for the EU Foreign Ministers when they meet in Copenhagen this week for the Informal meeting…
Post-Alaska: who will pay Ukraine war bill?
Brussels 20.08.2025 The EU countries – France, Italy, Hungary and the Czech Republic – have refused to pay for the supply of weapons from the United States to Ukraine. According to mass-media Paris’s refusal to purchase American weapons is explained by the position of French President Emmanuel Macron, convinced that the Europeans should develop their…
EU’s Biden loyalists statement
Brussels 17.08.2025 “Early this morning, President Trump debriefed us and President Zelenskyy following his meeting with the Russian President in Alaska on 15 August 2025” reads the statement of a group of eight of the European leaders: President Macron, Prime Minister Meloni, Chancellor Merz, Prime Minister Starmer, President Stubb, Prime Minister Tusk, President Costa, President…
Alaska Summit: Orban exposes Ursula vd Leyen
Brussels 12.08.2025 Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban did not join the statement of the leaders of the European Union (EU) on the Ukrainian settlement. He made this announcement on his page on the social network X, formally Twitter. The statement, published on the website of the European Commission, as well as the social page of…
NATO: new Supreme Allied Commander Europe
Brussels 04.07.2025 General Alexus G. Grynkewich of the U.S. Air Force assumed command of Allied Command Operations in a ceremony at Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe in Mons, Belgium on July, 4 2025). General Grynkewich succeeds General Chris Cavoli of the US Army, who had been in post since 2022. NATO welcomes new Supreme Allied…
NATO: Rutte versus Sanchez
The Hague. 23.06.2025 “…We meet at a truly historic moment, with significant and growing challenges to our security. As the world becomes more dangerous, Allied leaders will take bold decisions to strengthen our collective defence, making NATO a stronger, a fairer and a more lethal Alliance” said the NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, addressing journalists…
Baltic Air Space: Portuguese policing
Brussels 16.06.2025 The Portuguese Air Force is securing the skies over and around Estonia as part of NATO’s Baltic Air Policing mission. Fighter pilots and aircrew arrived at Ämari Air Base in late May, replacing an earlier Portuguese detachment that began its duties in April and assuming responsibility for their four F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter…
EU believes in diplomacy
Brussels 15.06.2026 A couple of hours before the hypersonic missile strike on Haifa, Israel, the EU top diplomat Kaja Kallas issued the following statement: “The European Union is following very closely the situation in the Middle East and expresses its deepest concern at the dangerous escalation that threatens to destabilise the Middle East following Israeli…
Patriarch Kirill isn’t scared by F-16
Brussels 14.06.2025 Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus’ said that he was not scared by the launch of an F-16 near his plane flying to Kaliningrad. Speaking at a meeting of the clergy of the Kaliningrad, he said that his plane was accompanied to the region by an F-16 fighter, and asked a rhetorical…