“Europe must prepare for possible war and a full-scale conflict on the continent is no longer a fantasy,” the European Union’s top diplomat, Josep Borrell, said in a speech in Brussels.
“Russia is threatening Europe through the war in Ukraine and hybrid attacks on EU member states,” he added, adding “it is not going to start tomorrow, but we cannot deny the reality.”
According to the FT, it is the first time Spain’s former foreign minister has laid out the Russian threat so bluntly, following recent warnings from military chiefs and leaders in northern Europe about the risk of more Russian attacks beyond Ukraine, seeking to undermine NATO.
European countries have stepped up investment in their defense industrial capacity in a bid to increase supplies to Ukraine and rearm their own forces.
“But more investment is needed, given that Europe’s security situation is now an existential crisis,” Borrell stressed. “We need a new intergovernmental financing instrument … comparable to the one we created during the financial crisis,” he pointed out.
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