Ursula von der Leyen’s plan to create a European Defense Union aims to give control over the defense industry in European nations from their governments to the European Commission, said Kirill Logvinov, Russia's acting envoy to the EU.
He was commenting after the plan was unveiled at a session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
"The bid to turn the EU into the EDU (the European Defense Union - TASS) means the European Commission would seize control over the entire European defense industry, repurposing the EU economy for a long-term military confrontation with our country," the diplomat told TASS.
Ursula von der Leyen re-elected as President of European Commission.
Von der Leyen’s candidacy was supported by 401 out of 720 Members of the European Parliament
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Confrontation with Russia will become the basis and a new driving force of the European project under the leadership of Ursula von der Leyen during her second term as President of the European Commission, Kirill Logvinov, Russia's acting permanent representative to the EU told TASS in comments on her program presented at the meeting of the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
ReplyDelete"The EU has definitively staked on confrontation with Russia, which in the foreseeable future will pose the main threat to today's eurocracy. It is the long-term action against the so-called Russian threat that has been proclaimed the driving force behind the further development of the European integration project, that should involve absolutely all its dimensions, actually enter the home of every European," the envoy said.
The European Commission earlier released Ursula von der Leyen’s political platform. She particularly announced plans to build "a true European Defense Union." "To frame the new approach and to identify our investment needs we will jointly present a White Paper on the Future of European Defense in the first 100 days of the mandate," von der Leyen added.
European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said she plans to turn the EU into a “defense union,” should she secure a second term in office.
ReplyDeleteThe German’s vision for the 27-nation bloc includes creating a single defense market.
In a speech ahead of a vote on her position in the European Parliament on Thursday, von der Leyen stated that “Russia is still on the offensive in eastern Ukraine” and claimed that Moscow is “banking on Europe and the West going soft,” RT reported.
She pledged that “Europe will stand with Ukraine for as long as it takes,” warning that “for the very first time our liberty is at stake.”