EU RESPONSE TO COVID-19 / Defence

High Representative calls for defence to continue to receive adequate funding

Brussels, 13/05/2020 (Agence Europe)

On Tuesday 12 May, Josep Borrell, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, called for sufficient funding to be provided for security and defence, despite the economic implications of Covid-19 for national and European budgets.

At the end of the Defence Ministers' videoconference on the implications of Covid-19, he stated that “we must safeguard the funding needed for security and defence, both in the Member States and at EU level”.

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