16/12/2025 (Agence Europe) – At the Eastern Flank Summit in Helsinki on Tuesday 16 December, eight EU Member States (Finland, Romania, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Estonia, Sweden, Latvia and Poland) stressed the importance of significantly enhancing security on Europe’s eastern external border. In their joint declaration, these States consider that the current situation “calls for an immediate prioritisation of the EU’s Eastern Flank, through a coordinated and multi-domain operational approach”. In their view, the ‘Eastern Flank Watch’ flagship project must integrate relevant capabilities, such as land combat capabilities, anti-drone, air and missile defences, border and critical infrastructure protection, military mobility and counter-mobility, and strategic levers. They also believe that this flagship project must complement the EU’s maritime security hub in the Black Sea, NATO’s Eastern Sentry and Baltic Sentry operations and the Alliance’s forward land forces. See the declaration: https://aeur.eu/f/k0y (CG)