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Brussels calls on the Twenty-Seven to arm a "Europe in danger"

2021-11-10T19:38:53.943Z


Faced with an increasingly hostile environment, the EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell, proposes the creation of a “rapid deployment capability” of 5,000 men.


Correspondent in Brussels

The findings of Josep Borrell, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, are clear.

"

Europe is in danger and Europeans are not always aware of it,

" he confided on Monday to a group of journalists from the European press, including

Le Figaro

.

"

Threats come from everywhere and in very different ways.

Land, sea, air.

They are hybrid, cyber, classic.

The world and the war are not as they used to be.

We are faced with a general instrumentalization of all kinds of tools.

Pretending that you are just soft power when so much is being used is certainly not enough.

The European Union can no longer be content to talk only about human rights and trade,

”he warned, speaking of the“

strategic responsibility

”of the EU.

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Source: lefigaro

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