🏭Get ready for the EDA Defence Industry Conference
We will discuss questions related to the EU's defence technological and industrial base (EDTIB).
️➡Read the full programme: http://www.eda.europa.eu/news-and-events/events/2026/02/26/default-calendar/defence-industry-conference
🏭Get ready for the EDA Defence Industry Conference
We will discuss questions related to the EU's defence technological and industrial base (EDTI...
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Strengthening Europe’s defence requires smarter cooperation. Defence clusters - small groups of aligned countries are the way forward, argues @LScazzieri. #EUdefence ➡️ https://ow.ly/NVXL50YiR7m
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RT by @ComisionEuropea: SatCen had the honour of welcoming European Commissioner for Defence and Space @KubiliusA .
🛰️ The visit highlighted SatCen’s established role within the EU security architecture, providing geospatial intelligence and serving as a central hub for space-based intelligence in support of EU foreign, security and defence policy.
📰Read more about the visit here: https://lnkd.in/eHQB6yr2
#EUSecurity #EUDefence #SatCen #Space4Security
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“U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has threatened to retaliate against European countries if the EU favors domestic weapons-makers in a drive to rearm the continent.”
—> Contractor interests were always part of the reason the USA opposed EU Defence.
—> Treating increased EU Defence spending as tribute will only make us more dependent on the US.
Washington promised missile licenses, then walked back — now Europe is scrambling to arm itself, Zelenskyy says
—> European military autonomy now
#Ukraine #USA #USPol #Europe #EU #UE #EUDefence #Geopolitics #Military #War
@proton @Mastodon 6/10
Defensie: Stop met de #F35! Europa moet investeren in eigen jagers (FCAS/Tempest) en vooral drones. Drones zijn de toekomst: goedkoper, flexibeler, en minder afhankelijk van de VS. #Eurodrone #Defensie #EUdefence
Today @EUCouncil greenlighted a set of decisions making financial assistance under SAFE available to 8 additional EU member states 🇪🇪 🇬🇷 🇮🇹 🇱🇻 🇱🇹 🇵🇱 🇸🇰 🇫🇮
This will help them acquire modern defence equipment & boost #EUdefence readiness.
Today @EUCou...
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Linksmos Nepriklausomybės dienos, Lietuva! 🇪🇺🇱🇹
Today, we celebrate #Lithuania on their Independence Day!
Visit our website to learn more about Lithuania’s contributions to EDA projects and programmes.
📸: General Jonas Žemaitis Military Academy of Lithuania
#EUdefence
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📝 Contribute to EDA’s preliminary market consultation on #ammunition
We have launched a request for information directed to #EU and #Norwegian industry for different ammunition calibres.
📅 Deadline: 31 March 2026
📝 Contribute to EDA’s preliminary market consultation on #ammunition
We have...
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Listen to @Nicolasdlparte:
The new transatlantic link has to be based on reciprocity and equality.
And that's why we need #EUDefence.
Watch⤵️
Video
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In eastern #Norway, #EDA tested unmanned ground vehicles for 10 days in Arctic conditions.
In Rena, #autonomous systems operated in snow and limited connectivity
Part of Combat Unmanned Ground Systems (#CUGS), involving 🇮🇹 🇧🇪 🇩🇪 🇪🇪 🇫🇮 🇫🇷 🇳🇱 🇵🇱 & 🇳🇴.
#EUdefence
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“[Russia’s] newest versatile attack drone is made of plywood, foam and aluminum tubing.”
It’s deadly, costs less than €500, has been cloned by Ukraine, and swarms of these things will soon be everywhere in every battlefield and terrorist attack…
We’ve got a problem
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a70301765/russia-lightning-drone/
📗 #ECAJournal | Our colleague Joël Costantzer shares insights on auditing #EUdefence policy, with a particular focus on the @EUauditors’ work of #EUmilitary mobility.
📖 Read the article:
https://www.eca.europa.eu/ECAPublications/JOURNAL-2025-02/JOURNAL-2025-02_EN.pdf#page=47
📗 #ECAJournal | An article by General Sławomir Wojciechowski and Colonel Jacek Czubak, Polish Military Representation to the #NATO and EU Military Committees, sharing their insights on the core principles for #EUdefence preparedness.
📖 Read the article:
https://www.eca.europa.eu/ECAPublications/JOURNAL-2025-02/JOURNAL-2025-02_EN.pdf#page=27
EU Citizens want stronger EU:
“- 69% say they wanted an expanded security role in global crises,
- 87% a more diplomatically aggressive Brussels on topics like peace and climate change, and
- 90% called for a bloc more unified to tackle key issues.“
—> the question is how much they’ll “pay” in national autonomy on these topics. But surely something, national elites are likely more difficult…
https://apnews.com/article/europe-brussels-eu-poll-mood-26957d4abd8e1d562c54680c43e6124c
Mario Draghi full speech, arguing for developing a European Federation, by starting with coalitions of the willing in specific areas.
If not, other powers will subordinate us, by picking us apart one by one.
The speech starts at 6:30
Russian hackers breached Polish power grid thanks to bad security, report says
““All of the attacks were purely destructive in nature — by analogy to the physical world, they can be compared to deliberate acts of arson,” read the report.”
#Grid #Electricity #Renewables #Russia #Poland #EUDefence #NATO #EU #EUPol #Geopolitics #Infosec
New Video: ANALYSIS: Europe (& Japan) Can Replace US Dependency in Intelligence Domain for Ukraine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr45EFv66tY #UpdateExtra #UkraineWar #EUDefence #IRIS2 #Geopolitics #NATO
I mean, is Rutte's emphasis on the cost of nuclear weapons basically relaying a US threat to withdraw the nuclear umbrella if EU Defence ever happens?
That would indeed be dangerous, and lead to proliferation at best.
As for the rest, of course advanced economies of 450M people (plus UK) could defend themselves.
The cost might be unpleasant in the short term, but a Russian invasion after MAGA abandons us would cost rather more.
Rutte, NATO chief, disses EU Defence:
"“If anyone thinks here . . . that the European Union or Europe as a whole can defend itself without the US, keep on dreaming,” he said in remarks to the European parliament. “You can’t.”"
Why not? Rutte mentions need to find soldiers, duplication of effort, "10%" of GDP needed, incl. to build nuclear arsenal, and Putin would love it.
--> Nuclear deterrence is a problem, the rest is BS
https://www.ft.com/content/e2f6cd48-2f89-4b75-9aae-fb9e70e773fd
