{"id":137177,"date":"2025-02-03T07:35:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T05:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/eu-leaders-meet-to-thrash-out-defence-priorities-and-iron-out-remaining-but-significant-divisions\/"},"modified":"2025-02-03T07:35:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T05:35:30","slug":"eu-leaders-meet-to-thrash-out-defence-priorities-and-iron-out-remaining-but-significant-divisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/eu-leaders-meet-to-thrash-out-defence-priorities-and-iron-out-remaining-but-significant-divisions\/","title":{"rendered":"EU leaders meet to thrash out defence priorities and iron out remaining but significant divisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137177\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>The EU needs to invest \u20ac500 billion over the coming decades to shore up its defence and kickstart its defence industries but member states remain divided over what and where to buy crucial equipment and how to finance it all. EU leaders will on Monday convene in Brussels to start thrashing out a common strategy to shore up Europe\u2019s defence and how to finance it as massive gaps in thinking still remain. It\u2019s in the 16th century neoclassical Palais d\u2019Egmont, in central Brussels, and not in their usual haunt in the European Council that leaders will gather in the morning for an informal retreat meant to give them the space to have frank and open discussions for their first ever summit dedicated solely to defence.<\/p>\n<p>To further help loosen leaders\u2019 tongues, no joint conclusions are to be expected at the end of the meeting, which will also be attended over lunch by the Secretary General of the NATO military alliance, Mark Rutte, and over dinner by Britain\u2019s Prime Minister, Keir Starmer. In between, the 27 EU leaders will discuss transatlantic relations and European defence with two key issues top of the agenda: which military capabilities the EU should spend cash on as a matter of priority; and how to finance the development and acquisition of these capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>According to the European Commission, the EU needs to invest \u20ac500 billion on defence over the next decade when only \u20ac8 billion was earmarked for the sector in the bloc\u2019s 2021-2027 budget. Funding is desperately needed to kickstart the European defence industry after decades of under-investments, secure the military equipment needed to help Ukraine defend itself, and protect the bloc against any potential aggressor. Intelligence agencies have warned that Russia could be in a position to attack an EU country by 2030 as it continues to outproduce its European counterparts in military equipment despite the sanctions imposed by the West to cripple its economy and ability to wage war.<\/p>\n<p>Most EU member states, which are also NATO allies, agree that the reflection over capabilities needs to be done with the military alliance which has decades of experience to draw upon and which has, crucially, started the job of identifying its capabilities gaps and how best to plug them. But there is also \u201ca shared sense of urgency among member states and an agreement that Europe needs to become a more efficient, a more autonomous, and a more reliable defence actor,\u201d a senior EU official said ahead of the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>This has become even more urgent following Donald Trump\u2019s return to the White House. The US President has lambasted EU NATO allies that are failing to spend the mandated 2% of their GDP on defence, called for spending to be raised to a 5% threshold and said he would encourage Russia to \u201cdo whatever the hell they want\u201d to allies who don\u2019t pay enough. The US has also increasingly shifted its foreign policy focus towards the Indo-Pacific region and China in particular, sparking concerns that it could, in the years to come, pull some of its focus and military capabilities from Europe towards the Far East.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2025\/02\/02\/eu-leaders-meet-to-thrash-out-defence-priorities-and-iron-out-remaining-but-significant-di\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2025\/02\/02\/eu-leaders-meet-to-thrash-out-defence-priorities-and-iron-out-remaining-but-significant-di\">Euronews<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/eu-leaders-meet-to-thrash-out-defence-priorities-and-iron-out-remaining-but-significant-divisions\/\">EU leaders meet to thrash out defence priorities and iron out remaining but significant divisions<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[555,982,274,847,17799],"class_list":["post-137177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-csr-news-en","tag-defence","tag-eu","tag-nato","tag-to-invest-e500-billion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}