Help to reinforce its borders with Russia and Belarus Poland and the Baltic countries ask Brussels.
The borders are the eastern border of the European Union, but also an “unprecedented” target, according to the same hybrid attacks on behalf of Moscow and Minsk.
The joint letter
“The construction of a defense infrastructure system along the EU’s external border with Russia and Belarus will respond to the urgent need to protect the EU from military and hybrid threats,” said the prime ministers of Poland, Estonia and Russia. Latvia, as well as the president. from Lithuania.
“The scale and cost of this joint venture require specific EU action support it politically and economically”, estimate the four leaders in their text published a few hours before the European summit, which is mainly dedicated to security, defense and combating irregular immigration.
Kaja Kalas, from Estonia, favorite to become head of European diplomacy, Donald Tusk, from Poland, Evika Silinia, from Latvia, and Gitanas Nauceda, from Lithuania, tout “massive investments” in the development of the armed forces, defense industry and of border protection with Russia and Belarus, which are already taking place in their respective countries.
In their letter, addressed to the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, and the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, the four responsible denounce a “unprecedented range of hybrid attacks carried out by Russia and its proxies.”
The leaders call for “intimidation, instrumentalization of migrants, sabotage, disinformation, manipulation of foreign information and meddling, as well as cyber attacks”.
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