And after NATO, the European Union. Community leaders have had to make their suitcase quickly to move from The Hague, where yesterday the summit of the Atlantic Alliance, to Brussels, where the last European council of the political course is held yesterday. An appointment that will necessarily be marked by the hangover of the defensive appointment, in which it was agreed to raise the 5% defense expenditure of the national GDP of each state.
But there is also its own agenda, much and serious: defense and security from the perspective of the house (and not the one imposed by the American Donald Trump), migration, preparation, internal security and, above all, the “geoeconomic challenges and current events in Ukraine and the Middle East”, from Iran to Gaza. All this must be treated, with a goal: “build a more competitive, safe and autonomous Europe for our citizens, and ensure that the European Union can be an effective, predictable and reliable global actor,” in the words of the Portuguese Antonio Costa, president of the European Council.
(Tagstotranslate) Ukraine War
