This is the concept that the Spanish government has been insisting on since the preparations for the summit.
On the eve of a visit to Paris in early June, Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares told
Le Figaro
: "
The summit must provide a strong response to the east, but also to the hybrid threats on the southern flank: cybersecurity, political use of energy and migratory flows, jihadism.
And this must be reflected in NATO's Strategic Concept
(the roadmap which marks the priorities of the Atlantic organization for a decade and will be renewed in Madrid, editor's note)
”
.
Since then, Albares and his counterpart at Defense have constantly hammered home their request.
The southern flank?
“
It is an expression that has been used for a long time within NATO in contrast to the threat from the East, against which the organization was built,
deciphers retired general José Enrique de Ayala, an analyst at the Fundacion alternativas.
It was initially a question of protecting the Mediterranean…
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