Historic turning point: EU launches largest defense plan in European history, announced

The European Commission has presented a defense package worth hundreds of billions of euros that should respond to the urgent needs of Ukraine and the long-term need to strengthen Europe's security and defense.

The international order is undergoing the most profound changes since 1945, and this is particularly affecting Europe. This thesis has become common in statements by European officials in recent weeks, and is now enshrined in the White Paper on Defense, a fundamental document prepared by the European Commission on the goals and objectives of the EU's defense policy for the coming years. The book was released on March 19, and the next day was the…

In recent years, around two-thirds of EU defense orders have gone to American defense companies.

It is known that at the beginning of this March, Ursula von der Leyen proposed a Plan of Rearmament for Europe that would mobilise up to €800 billion to finance a massive increase in Defense spending once Trump decreed to suspend his military aid to Ukraine, in the well-understood – or perhaps misunderstanding – that the EU together with the UK would supply that aid by increasing its own assistance. As Von der Leyen did not accept questions from…

The defense package presented by the European Commission on Wednesday is an opportunity to develop Croatia's defense industry in order to strengthen its own military capabilities, Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković announced after a meeting with European Commission Commissioner Andrius Kubilius.

– A clear expression of a desire to take greater responsibility for one's own security, says Minister of Defense Tore O. Sandvik about the EU Commission's proposed defense plan.