8
Oct
2025
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United response to recent Russian violations of the EU Member States’ airspace and critical infrastructure (debate)
Madam President, we have been debating a real threat for hours: the increasing and repeated violation of our airspace by Russian drones in Putin's hybrid war against the European Union and all that the Union stands for. And what lessons come from listening to President von der Leyen? The first, the unit. Of course I do. And the second is a strategy to build a European anti-drone wall and a European air and space defence shield. But it is not enough to state it. Of course, for it to be effective, it cannot depend on the increase of 27 fragmented efforts, of 27 national budgets. No. It is a book example of the need to aim for an integration of our cybersecurity capabilities with sophisticated technologies that detect and shoot down drones to deter Putin. But in addition, it must be credible. And this means that it cannot harm what the European Union really stands for. The generation of investments and resources requires the European Union's own resources and strategic investments and, therefore, cannot harm social or cohesion policy or solidarity. Nor, of course, that social pillar on which the dignity of work and housing that Europeans are so concerned about depends.