The President of the European Council, António Costa, said on Monday 3 February in Brussels, at the end of the informal ‘retreat’ of European leaders devoted to the EU’s defence, that we needed to do “more, faster, better, stronger” and that it needed to be done “together”.
“We now really need to step up a gear and speed things up, because Russia and Putin are not just threatening Ukraine, but all of us, and we need to be able to defend ourselves”, stressed Danish Prime...