“We must draw on the entire industrial potential of our continent to improve our military capabilities,” wrote Annalena Baerbock (Germany), Stéphane Séjourné (France) and Radoslaw Sikorski (Poland) in a guest article, adding that a permanent arms build-up required long-term contracts with clear timetables and financial commitments, as well as purchase guarantees issued by European governments.
Spending two percent of gross domestic product on defence could be “just a starting point”, the ministers stated in the article.
Writing on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the North Atlantic military alliance NATO on Thursday, they added: “The US has long shouldered more of the burden than the other members of our alliance. Yet collective defence must be a joint effort.”
With regard to the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine, the foreign ministers reaffirmed: “If Europe is to live in peace, Russian imperialism must be stopped.”
Source: deutschland.de
