(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
The European Union needs its own armed forces to ensure its
security, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell wrote on his Sunday
blog, Trend reports
citing TASS .
'The new security environment demonstrates that the EU needs to
take on more responsibility for its own security. For this, we need
modern and interoperable European armed forces, looking at the
higher-end of the spectrum and also striving to scale up
capabilities and forces,' he wrote.
According to Borrell, the European Union needs to work kin three
basic directions. 'Member states must: First, work on the combat
readiness of forces, including on stockpile replenishment; Second,
augment existing capabilities, quantitatively and qualitatively
(mass and volume), within the next five years with a focus on gaps
accumulated from the past, such as strategic enablers,
modernisation of air defences, cyber and space-based capabilities,
just to name a few,' he wrote. 'Third, in a longer period, develop
jointly future key capabilities such as Main Battle Tanks, advanced
anti-access/area denial (A2/AD) capabilities or Space Situational
Awareness.'
'The time to push forward European defence is now. We need to
strengthen the European defence industrial base and to be
operational with the needed military capacities. To be able to
increase our military capacity to defend ourselves, to make the
NATO stronger and to support better our partners whenever needed,'
he emphasized.
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