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EU says drones are a threat but scrambles for common response
EU countries agree drone threats require stronger coordination, but divisions remain over information sharing and national control. Amid fibrillations on the bloc’s eastern flank, a leaked document highlights efforts to boost detection, resilience and cooperation while avoiding overlap with NATO.
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Former NATO official says ‘better’ drone defences urgently needed
Exclusive: Former NATO Deputy Secretary-General Mircea Geoană has warned that the military alliance needed stronger low-altitude military capabilities to shoot down drones, as seen with the incursion late last week in Romania that has left the country in "shock".
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NATO to defend Romania and ‘every inch’ of allied territory: Rutte
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said that the 32-member alliance stands with Romania amid a Russian drone incursion that crashed into a residential building and injured two people in the country’s southeast early Friday morning.
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Newsletter: EU makes its trade play in Mexico
As top European Union officials travel to Mexico on Friday to finalise a revived EU-Mexico trade deal, NATO foreign ministers will meet for a second day in Sweden to try to decipher Washington’s increasingly confusing military posture in Europe.
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NATO ministers meet as US plans to pull away from European security
The summit will focus on the Trump administration's plans to withdraw guarantees of support for European security architecture – even in wartime – and the depletion of the alliance's critical weapons stocks due to the ongoing war in Iran.
