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Wednesday, April 16, 2014

EU countries to boost defence budgets in light of Ukraine

European Union flagMilitary chiefs have said the Ukraine crisis is a “wake-up call” for EU countries’ defence spending, as the US backed Ukraine’s use of force in eastern regions.

Speaking to press after a regular meeting of EU defence ministers in Luxembourg on Tuesday (15 April), the deputy chief of the EU’s external action service, Maciej Popowski, said: “We’ve had 70 years of peace now [in Europe], but we see that power politics is back with a vengeance, so it’s a wake-up call and now we need to get serious about defence.”

He noted that “this was the feeling around the table” at the Luxembourg event.

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1 comment:

  1. Roberto Yeager16/4/14 11:13

    Could be a Toophan, iranian reverse-engineered copy of the TOW, which serves on sirian Army.

    1Saludo.Roberto_yeager

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