Ministers meet on Friday at NATO and on Monday at European level. “Ministers must come out of this meeting with concrete commitments,” urges EU diplomat Borrell. For NATO, Ukraine must have priority. Even if it was at the temporary expense of the Allies’ defense and deterrent force.
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By Philippe RegnierPublished on 04/18/2024 at 8:40 p.m.
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un “game changer”, as the Anglo-Saxons say? Alexander De Croo thinks so. “This fundamentally changes the situation,” he believes. At a press conference at the European summit, the Belgian Prime Minister referred to the verdict delivered Wednesday by NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg. In essence: Ukraine must have priority. The situation is in fact so tense for Ukrainian defense, short of shells and anti-missile missiles, that the Allies are temporarily authorized to weaken their own defense and deterrence capabilities, by transferring defense assets to Ukraine without further delay. air force desperately demanded by kyiv.
“If Allies face a choice between meeting NATO capability goals and providing additional aid to Ukraine, my message is clear: send more aid to Ukraine,” Stoltenberg said after a meeting at NATO headquarters in Brussels with the Dutch, Danish and Czech Prime Ministers.
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