Brussels 03.04.2025 During his fist visit to NATO Headquarters the U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced America’s commitment to the Alliance, however pointed the necessity to “… committing and fulfilling a promise to reach up to 5 percent in spending. That includes the United States will have to increase its percentage”. Rubio visits Brussels…
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ReArm Europe White Paper
Brussels 19.03.2025 Today, the Commission and the High Representative have presented a White Paper for European Defence – Readiness 2030. The Commission has also presented, as part of the ReArm Europe Plan/Readiness 2030, an ambitious defence package providing financial levers to EU Member States to drive an investment surge in defence capabilities. Our information space…
NATO new cyber defense centre
Brussels 11.07.2024 NATO allies agreed to launch a new cybersecurity unit aimed at warning military commanders of emerging hacking threats. The decision was announced during the 75th NATO Summit in Washington D.C. on July 10. (Image above: illustration). The Integrated Cyber Defense Centre’s mandate will include sharing threat intelligence on cyber threats to private infrastructure…
EU focus on Strategic Compass
Brussels 21.03.2022 “Today is going to be a very long day. We are going to have a joint meeting with the Defence Ministers in order to approve – I hope – the Strategic Compass. Which is not the answer to the Ukrainian war, but it is part of the answer. We have been working on…
Russia: U.S. submarine Kuril incident
Brussels 12.02.2022 Anna van Densky Russia’s Defense Ministry has summoned the U.S. military attaché over the incident with Virginia-class American nuclear-powered submarine detected on Saturday, February 12, morning near the Pacific Fleet’s drills near Iturup Island of the Kurils. (Image above: illustratoin). US military attache summoned to Russian Defense Ministry over submarine incident: https://t.co/uzpmXgArBf ©…
#SOTEU: EU towards European Defence Union
Strasbourg 15.09.2021 “..Witnessing events unfold in Afghanistan was profoundly painful for all the families of fallen servicemen and servicewomen” said the president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen while delivering the State of the Union speech #SOTEU at Strasbourg plenary of the European Parliament. 🔴 LIVE: State of the European Union. Watch MEPs…
NATO: Mattis shifts accents
NATO HQ: Secretary of Defence Jim Mattis at his press conference read carefully worded statement, with accents on the unity of the Alliance. He also softened the message on budget, expressing belive that there will be no need to ‘moderate’ on the US position, because all the allies understand the importance of defence. Mattis also…
Gen.Mattis: NATO stays a bedrock of security
NATO HQ, Brussels: US Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis reconfirmed the US engagement in NATO, as a “bedrock” of the Transatlantic security, however the issue of budget stays as a priority. The current practise of a number of the NATO members to act as security-consumers does not correspond to the vision of the fair burden-sharing of…
NATO in stalemate
NATO Defence Ministers began two days of talks in Brussels on Wednesday,15 February 2017, focusing on ensuring NATO’s strength and flexibility in the face of evolving challenges. Ministers will review progress in deploying NATO’s deterrent forces in the eastern part of the Alliance and assess what NATO can do in the fight against terrorism, says…
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