Pressmeddelanden
Press Officer for Security and Defence: Viktor ALMQVIST
Contact details:
- Phone number: (+32) 228 31 834 (BXL)
- Mobile number: (+32) 470 88 29 42
- E-mail: viktor.almqvist@europarl.europa.eu
- E-mail: foreign-press@europarl.europa.eu
- Elke SCHMUTTERER
- E-mail: sede-secretariat@europarl.europa.eu
On Thursday, MEPs backed a draft law designed to strengthen Europe’s defence industry, ramp up defence product manufacturing and provide more support for Ukraine.
Security and Defence MEPs travelled to Chișinău, Moldova, and Odesa, Ukraine, to show solidarity in the face of an escalating hybrid war and Russia’s ceasefire rejection and ongoing war.
A seven-member Security and Defence Committee delegation will visit Moldova from 14-16 April for talks with high-level government and parliament representatives.
MEPs want the EU to respond determinedly to Russia’s aggression in Ukraine, conflict in the Middle East, and the return of so-called “great power” politics.
On Wednesday afternoon, two leading MEPs will hold a press conference on Ϸվ’s views on EU foreign, security and defence policy.
EU står inför en vändpunkt och "business as usual" är inte längre ett alternativ mot hoten och attackerna mot europeisk säkerhet.
On Tuesday, MEPs, the Polish Council Presidency, and Presidents Costa and von der Leyen debated the future of Europe’s security and strengthening EU defence capabilities.
A Committee on Security and Defence delegation travelled to Bosnia and Herzegovina to visit the EU’s EUFOR Althea operation, in the context of a deepening political crisis in the country.
A delegation of Security and Defence Committee MEPs will visit Bosnia and Herzegovina from 24 to 27 February to discuss security challenges with the country’s political leadership.